sexual object, n.All

The Sexual object (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠originally twofold for a human being — himself and the woman who nurses him.

Sexual object (n.) stays ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠self-identical: nothing happens to it, because what can be consumed is not the Other.

A Sexual object (n.) was ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠all we knew to begin with, by Freud's paradoxical dictum — yet it would be truer to say we first knew nothing but nourishing breasts; the caterpillar enjoys eating and has no sex at all.