“Sometime in the mid-1930s, German jurist Theodor Sternberg (1878-1950) concluded that law and love were incompatible. In one of his ‘erotosophical’ fragments, he claimed that affective bonds thrived under anarchy. Love, for Sternberg had to be free from egoism and compulsion, eschew both duty and obligation. ‘Coitus’, especially, was divine in origin – God’s love for the world incarnate – and just like God’s love was limitless, sexuality knew no law. Sternberg wrote his fragment in Japan, where he lived as an independent scholar for almost forty years …” (more)
[Katharina Isabel Schmidt, History | Sexuality | Law, 19 January]
First posted 2021-01-22 12:01:15
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