In a podcast conversation with Joe Rogan, Brand offers his own introspective reading of what he was looking for in his promiscuity: “The great gift of promiscuity,” he told Rogan, “is that you get to experience all of the intimacy with all of these strangers and it seems exciting. And the kind of sexuality that I’ve always had is more about worship than any kind of domination. I adore, I adore, you know?”10 This recognition of an almost liturgical aspect to sexual desire would not surprise Augustine.
