The revolution of sex

Bill's speech at University of Washington

In the future, when people talk about our work, I hope that they will say to each other, what's the fuss about that. I hope they will find it hard to believe there was ever a time that this kind of study was necessary. what a triumph it would be!

In 1687, Sir Isaac Newton discovered what was then known as the law of universal gravitation- gravity.  Take two objects, the larger object exerts an attractive force on the smaller object, pulling it towards itself, as it were.  An apple falls from a tree. The Earth, by far the more massive object pulls the Apple to the ground. Simple enough.  Only Newton's theory left scientists a rather puzzling problem.  To paraphrase you, Dr Farber, where is gravity? It's not something you can see or touch.  It's not something you can put under microscopes or examine from a telescope.  Well, 230 years after Newton, a German patent clerk in Switzerland finally realized that scientists have been asking the wrong question all along.  They would never find an object in all the immensity of space called gravity.  Because in point of fact, gravity is nothing but the shape of space itself.  The clerk-Einstein, posited that the Apple does not fall to the ground because the Earth exerts some mysterious kind of force upon it.  The apple falls to the ground because it is following the lines and grooves that gravity has carved into space.  And when we talk about sex, we donnot talk about love, because love cannot be rendered into columnd and graphs as if it were the same as blood pressure or heart rate.  Love is not a force exerted by one body onto another. It is the very fabric of those bodies.  Love is that which carves the line and groove and the creature of our desire.

就地过年百无聊赖，北京天气还不好，趁机刷完了性爱大师四个季，香艳的画面少不了，但其实这是一部很有深度的剧。当人类的性行为被科学分析后，相关的各种复杂感情就更好理解了。

马斯特斯博士是一流的专家医生和研究者，但作为性学专家，他也无法让自己婚姻美满。在研究成果出版后，他重返华盛顿大学发表演讲时，上面这一段关于性与爱最好的解释吧。