ABSTRACT
Sexual desire seeks variety—it might be exclusive for a while, but its roving eye soon comes to life again: one desires multiple people at a time, finding numerous people sexually desirable or attractive. Sexual desire also loses interest in its object after some time. In addition, sexual desire also objectifies—it reduces its object of attraction to a mere body, thereby throwing out the window non-selfish moral considerations. Human beings, on such a view, are generally selfish, inclined to satisfy their desires, and full of vices, especially greed, vanity, envy, and self-indulgence. But life does have a few good things, which include love and sex. Love manages to help us be less selfish and sex brings much pleasure to a life otherwise containing little pleasure. One might think that life is generally good, but human beings bad, or that sex is good but romantic love bad or vice versa.
