A variety of factors and issues such as the turmoil of the inner self, purification, and a “struggle against concupiscence” go into the “problematization of sex” in our culture and society, to borrow from Foucault. But what is at the “core” of this “problematization” of sex “was no longer pleasure and the aesthetics of its use, but desire and its purifying hermeneutics.”
In other words, art and beauty as the manifestation or the expression of the inner self is not the problem and can in fact be reconciled with our overall perspective and standpoint, as long as desire is interpreted for what it is. And of course, desire is perhaps a double-edged sword; it propels us forward, all while having to be overcome at the same exact time.
Adam A. Azim 