The 18th-century philosopher Immanuel Kant believed that human beings tend to be evil. He wasn’t talking about some man rubbing his hands and immodest with glee at the view of punishing someone who you don’t like. Kant was thinking about the basic human leaning to give in to what we want to do instead of what we shawl do, to pay attention to the siren-song of our needs instead of the roller coaster. For Kant morality is the force that closes this gap and holds us back from our devious desirous selves.
Once desire becomes suspicious sex is never far behind. Kant righty acknowledged the unusual power of sexual needs and their capacity to distract us from doing what is right. He claimed that sex was very morally wrong because lust focuses on the