The Immoral Maze

My greatest problem with sex
was always that it promised me
that it was playful. Then it set goals
and made strict rules of engagement
which made retreat from them seem absurd
and following them impossible.

What was first offered as direct reward
became gratification with-held
and the got further redefined,
as the force behind everything else,
until everything became that indirect
that the rules became the guide
to how life should lack meaning.