ABSTRACT
We believe that our citizens should be able to achieve a maximum in both quantity and quality of experience, but what is attainable by men and women in our day of the neuter is hardly rich and full. Just preceding the empire, sex expression became much more free, and male-female differences blurred. Julius Caesar was sometimes described as every man's wife and every woman's husband. The pervasive nature of depolarization has made it a routine feature of the cultural landscape that we take for granted, and our casualness about it may have led us to unwitting acceptance of a near-revolution in social life. One metaphor of response to neutering is provided by the final scene of Red Desert, Antonioni's brilliant film about the effects of industrialization. We can appreciate the prescience of Freud in his observation that the future of sexuality would give the answer to and be the measure of the future of mankind.
