I was thinking about the liberal terror of sex this morning and I wonder how much of that just comes about as a marker for wanting to join the PMC? Had not thought about that angle before but I think I am onto something there.

Now, I do think it is real terror. They’re not faking anything. But I think this fear is instantiated and activated by the desire to signal that they are serious, robotic, neoliberal- and capital-friendly people, always ready and even happy to comply with the strictures of Human Resources, ever prepared to toady up to the nearest VC or C-level exec.

The license and licentiousness of sex gets in the way of all that, and thus it must be shunned and not just publicly but everywhere, even in their own minds and hearts, until it becomes in fact who they really are.