Beaver State Follies

September, 1985

Jean-Paul Sartre, who was not an Oregonian, held that the people most occupied with sexual matters were those who opted for celibacy as a way of "sexually Being."To Sartre's Gallic way of thinking, one who negates sex through celibacy must constantly think of sex in order to control the natural urge to copulate with something. Eventually, the celibate begins to perceive sexual content in everything, and horniness becomes both a virtue and an obsession.Here in the Pacific Northwest, Sar...