Freed or suppressed? Pornographic or philosophical? Indescribable or omnipresent? Sex drives us and surrounds us, life blossoms and withers. Desire pushes, gets lost, or extinguishes. Our culture condemns the obscene and mobilizes its violence, regulates its use, and turns it into a commodity worldwide. Sex is an intersection, the place where desire is fulfilled in love, and an unrestrained means in all kinds of wars. Kant saw sex as the purpose of nature and the legitimate objectification of spouses. Freud did not believe in love as a remedy against the fury of destruction, yet he recognized in the trajectory of sex and art a way to give form to instinct and open access to meaning. In his latest book, Jean-Luc Nancy circles around Eros and drive, gender and life principle, the enigmatic physical rhythm, and its relation to language and death.