ABSTRACT
Love is a force between individuals which is self-grounding and self-motivating. The body provides a concrete medium through which paradoxical love may(be) find(s) itself. Gender is a precondition for, and a consequence of, love. The productive powers of love become heavily strained because the family as a working unit is so strongly under-communicated. The family has the appearance of natural human community which should, and must, act as a guarantee for security and intimacy. Children become a sort of unreplicable nature which must be nurtured to independence and maturity. Proximity to the body and to nature creates a distinctive authentic profundity. Sexuality is solidly anchored in the body, that is, in solid notions of, and fantasies about, the body. By way of the body the semantics of sport have been transposed onto the semantics of sexuality. Semantic universes are based on contrasts and boundaries. In Western cultures, work and home constitute a fundamental contrast which generates many other decisive contrasts.
