Review: How To Think More About Sex – Alain De Botton | Jenny Diski @ Full Stop
One common feature of these attacks on sexuality, sexual liberation, and clear thinking about sex, is that they present at least one component of their arguments as self-evident. A simple example of this can be found in attacks on pornography, which often angrily and urgently detail the sexual acts in the scene — threesomes, foursomes, the use of fetish objects, rough sex, etc. — but offer little explanation as to why we should be outraged by portrayal of these acts, hoping instead that whoever’s listening will have an automatic sympathy with the critic’s unthinking revulsion… Pop philosopher Alain de Botton’s How To Think More about Sex may inspire us, as it promises, to thinkmore about sex. But Alain de Botton doesn’t think much about his own thinking, nor does the book encourage the reader to.