[Fr.] Tony Anatrella, “Forgotten Sex,” trans. Liu Weixu and Xu Jun, Guangxi Normal University Press, June 2003, 18.8 yuan
The author is a Freudian social psychologist. Taking sex as his thread, he discusses topics such as the body, society, love, and growing up. In terms of readability and intellectual stimulation, this is a good book.
The author points out that modern people seem on the surface to have “liberated” sex and liberated the “body,” but in fact they are often negating and rejecting them, so much so that they eventually move toward forgetting them. Today’s “sex” has been stripped away from reproduction, love, morality, and “sexual relations”; “sex for sex’s sake” makes sex seem to have lost all connection with these other things. What is called “sex education” has also degenerated into nothing more than a matter of hygiene and physiological knowledge, while neglecting the cultivation of a child’s sound personality.
I won’t write much more in the way of notes and comments. If there is a chance later, I will talk again about related issues.
October 14, 2007
Translated from the Chinese original with AI assistance. The original text is authoritative.
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