The Problem of Sex
SEX is decidedly one of the most important problems
with which the human mind is confronted in the domain of duality. It is
one of the “givens” in the make-up of human nature with which one has
to deal. Arising of problem of sex Like
everything else in human life, sex comes to be considered through the
opposites which are the necessary creations of the limited mind. Just
as the mind tries to fit life into a scheme of alternatives such as joy
or pain, good or bad, solitude or company, attraction or repulsion, so
in relation to sex it tends to think of indulgence and repression as
alternatives from which there is no escape. It seems as if man must
accept the one alternative or the other. Yet he cannot whole-heartedly
accept either, for when he tries repression he is dissatisfied with his
lot and longingly thinks of indulgence. When he tries indulgence he
becomes conscious of his bondage to the senses and seeks freedom by
going back to mechanical repression. The mind remains dissatisfied with
both alternatives and there thus arises one of the most vital and complicated problems of human life.
In order to solve the problem of sex, the mind must first understand that both
alternatives are equally the creation of imagination working under the deluding