And Dr. Wall is, indeed, an astrophysicist, I googled for his profiles at the universities where he has studied and worked to confirm. His areas of expertise are quantum gravity and black hole thermodynamics.
His thoughts are all very sexy. From seeing the "cruelty" in the perversion of sex even in our common vernacular to providing the basic science of pair-bonding… this guy has got it going on.
He even logically describes my favorite truth from beloved philosopher and posthumous crush, Soren Kierkegaard:
"You who speak so beautifully about how much the beloved means to you or you to the beloved, remember that if a pure heart is to be given away in erotic love the first consideration must be for your soul as well as for your beloved’s! This consideration is the first and the last; from this consideration there is no separation without guilt and sin."
-Soren Kierkegaard from Works of Love
"I will, however, have to assume one mystical dogma in this post, namely that there is such a thing as ethics, which commands do not harm your fellow human being, and that this rule is obligatory. Furthermore, that one's fellow human beings includes ONESELF, so that the ethical person is first and foremost committed to human flourishing in the one example of humanity which they actually have control over. Therefore, you cannot excuse a self-destructive behavior by saying "it doesn't hurt anyone else", because if you really love what is good, you will want to see it produced in yourself as well as others. Besides, by destroying yourself you lose your ability to help other people, and cause anyone who loves you to suffer.
By the same token, it is insufficient if the other person consents, because people sometimes consent to things which are harmful to them. You have to actually decide whether the act of sex would be beneficial or destructive to the other person."
-Aron Wall from Chastity: not just for religious folk
See? Sexy.
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