We cannot, he concludes. “It is in many ways easier to be frank today about one’s sexual habits than it is to talk about what intoxicants one uses…rendering us all shame-faced inarticulates on the subject.”123 It is time for us to become articulate again. While it is socially acceptable to talk in purely aesthetic terms about our interest in fine wine, microbrewed beer, or designer cannabis, we remain uncomfortable talking about our need for embodied pleasure for its own sake, rather than as a side effect of more respectable, abstract connoisseurship. This is a hang-up that we need to get
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