Abstract

Why does society try to manage sex as it does violence? Is it because sex is as dangerous as violence, or is it because, even more than violence, sex leaves us at the mercy of passions that make it difficult to distinguish between good and evil, passions for which good and evil are the same? In order to answer these questions, the article reconstructs from an anthropological point of view Bataille’s theory of sexuality. The article aims to show, on the one hand, the link between violence and sexuality and, on the second hand, how eroticism checkmates every possible form of culture constructed to escape the violence enrooted in human nature.