Too much attention is paid to the genitals
Understandably really
Since the exploding galaxy of the cerebral cortex
Remains out of sight
And people love visual stimulation
We say I see when we mean I know
But at some point seeing gives way to touching
And we say touched when we mean emotionally aroused

Emotionally but not necessarily sexually
And that which is touching is extra-sexual tenderness
Metaphors of course for cortical functions
But functionality cannot account
Neuroscience cannot account
For states that must be accounted for
Philosophically and poetically if at all
Though science has grown close to explaining sexual difference
And no doubt desire is a function
Of molecular biophysics
No doubt caring pleasure fear wrath and aching desire
Each represents an evolutionary adaptation
Fight flight pursuit and copulation
But how to account for the ache of the ache
How account for the fire the ice the rushing wind
How do our molecules differ really
From the myth of homicidal Ishtar
Or blind gropings in the forests of repression

Here’s a test case for you
Ennui
How does pissed-off boredom give advantage
How does this modern affective invention
Conduce to survival and reproduction
Sex is great for relieving sexual tension
Sex is really great for sharing tenderness
But sex is a lousy response to ennui
It fails in its aim frustrates and produces deeper ennui

Too much attention is paid to the body
The mind-body duality has done much mischief
What problem does this analytical division aim to solve
Analytical division of continuum is the problem
Division of the mind into faculties
Division of the body into the internal and the external
And thence into systems organs appendages joints digits
And yes genitals
And the equally mischievous treatment of the body
As coterminous with the ego
And the ego as coterminous with the person
And the subsequent analytical division of one person from another
When one really wants nothing more
Than to join with the beloved