How Rationalistic Knowledge Can Enhance Sexual Experiences

Sexuality has a deeply experiential nature that provides a rationalist with much to reflect on and bask in, as it spans actions, thoughts, feelings, relationships, and moral considerations.  As a rational person reasons out more individual logical truths about sexuality--and sexually introspects or lets friends or romantic partners hear more about their sexuality--he or she can acquire a unique set of emotional filters that carry a distinct awareness of specific truths into everyday sexual experiences.  Since some accessible and hyper-precise, often unheard of truths reason can reveal are about sexuality, and since knowledge can help shape how life is experienced from one moment to the next, rationalistic awareness of sexuality can pleasantly alter private and social sexual experiences.

One example of this is how realizing that sexual feelings do not override rationality and free will can in turn instill a sense of peace and excitement about one's sexuality that remains throughout one's general life.  Whether reflecting on one's own sexual depths or on sexual attraction to someone of the opposite gender, one can have an amplified experience just by having engaged in a rational analysis of broad and specific logical facts about sexuality.  Rational beliefs can impact feelings and attitudes, and feelings and attitudes can change how someone perceives their own life from one event to the next.  Sexuality, unfortunately, is not usually associated with rigid rationalism, but it is an enormous part of human existence and its relationship to how rationalism deepens personal experiences has important ramifications.

There are truths about sexuality that are more specific and scarcely recognized which could also make excellent examples.  The pleasure of something as somewhat standard as husbands and wives wearing lingerie to sexually excite each other could be heightened with the knowledge that there is nothing sexual about any kind of clothing itself, only an individual's perceptions of that clothing, no matter how revealing or sensual it is, as well as no matter what the intent behind making, selling, buying, and wearing it is.  The paradoxical nature of how purely nonsexual but sensual clothing like swimwear and, far less obviously to many people, lingerie can randomly excite people in an explicitly sexual way could inspire a deep awe at the nuances of sexuality that follows one into romantic relationships and even private sensual experiences and thoughts.

A husband's pleasure at seeing his wife wear revealing lingerie and a wife's pleasure at seeing her husband wear sensual, revealing lingerie of his own (there is nothing about lingerie that is logically connected to just one gender or the other!) could have even more experiential depths in light of this fact.  The intimacy of a couple mutually concerned about bowing to truth, the gripping sense of pleasure at the visual stimulation, and the feeling of clarity can all work together to allow a side of sexual life with a partner that far surpasses the emotional riches that would otherwise be accessible.  In fact, savoring the many logical truths about sexuality in a conceptual and personal sense is one of the best ways to offer oneself a stronger kind of sexual satisfaction.

Understanding truths about sexuality is a significant part of understanding reality as a whole.  Both truths that are more apparent to seekers of rationalistic knowledge, like the fact that sexuality is not some philosophically irrelevant topic to be dismissed, and truths that only a smaller number of genuine truth seekers are likely to discover, like the fact that lingerie is utterly nonsexual because no aesthetic category of clothing has a quality that makes it itself sexual, are important in a philosophical sense, and they also have the power to make sexuality all the more enjoyable to people who understand them.  Something with as much conceptual depth, introspective potential, and social and moral ramifications as sexuality cannot be validly reduced to just one small part of human life.  All people are sexual beings, and all people who wish to appreciate their sexualities and be in alignment with ultimate reality can find that the two goals intertwine so easily.