sexual instinct, n.All

The Sexual instinct (n.) may ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠be the effort of living substance, torn into particles at its birth, to reunite — chemical affinity persisting in the flesh.

The Sexual instinct (n.) matters ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠so much to us not for the species' sake but because procreation is the individual's real achievement, his highest expression of power.

Sexual instinct (n.) are ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the true life instincts: conservative like all the others, but conservative to a higher degree, because what they cling to and bring back is life itself.

The Sexual instinct (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the pupil that will not be educated: it keeps working by the pleasure principle and often overrules reality, to the harm of the whole organism.