death instinct, n.All

The Death instinct (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the wrong key to bourgeois sexuality: what that class built was not a taboo but a body to be cared for and cultivated.

The Death instinct (n.) now ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠lives in sex in a strictly historical sense: we hold that sex is worth dying for, an equivalence the West once granted only to love.