Sex and the City (of Rome). 3  Borghese Hermaphroditus, Louvre.
Fair use     Can you imagine today a VIP’s living room offering
the view of a marble transsexual to guests? Well, excluding some
eccentric artistic milieus, I think even open-minded people
would be very puzzled, what do you think?  The second question
is more difficult. I believe that the Christian religion has
some responsibility, although I acknowledge that sexual pleasure
& love are such a tremendous force that it can be a social
problem no matter what culture or epoch we live in. As the
Spanish philosopher Fernando Savater puts it, we like it too
much, therefore sex is potentially dangerous, unproductive and
every society tries to regulate it in a way or another.
Puritanism in its broad meaning however – loving only what is
not pleasurable – is to be condemned in my view even if it can
push us to be extremely active and to work extremely hard
(puritanism was seen as a factor of development in areas of the
United States according to Max Weber