Abstract
The sexual act is not for the depositing of seed. It is for leaping off into the unknown, as from a cliff's edge, like Sappho into the sea.
D. H. Lawrence
When I was first asked to think about writing something on this subject, my automatic response was ‘but it's all so long ago now; just a memory.’ It's not that I am so very old (nor young), but it's a while since I had a lover—that is to say, I have not been sexually active for some time. I don't think I need go on, but it was interesting to catch my first response—‘oh sex’… and the stirring interest.