Literature and Sex # The sexual instinct is an intregal part of nature and being human. It is nature’s way of propagating our species. Yet coming to terms with our sexuality seems the most challenging aspect of self awareness. What is romantic love? A mere chemical reaction in the brain? A biological imperative to keep the species reproducing? It remains a mystery. Early civilisations were concerned about fertility of both the land and women. ...
Virginia Woolf # Virginia Woolf 1882 - 1941 Virginia Woolf was born Virginia Stephen in 1882 into a prominent and intellectually well-connected family. Her formal education was limited, but she grew up reading voraciously from the vast library of her father, the critic Leslie Stephen. Her youth was a traumatic one, including the early deaths of her mother and brother, a history of sexual abuse, and the beginnings of a depressive mental illness that plagued her intermittently throughout her life and eventually led to her suicide in 1941. ...