Comments on: Good Art Is Like Good Sex

By: Jack H

Jack H — Thu, 15 May 2008 09:19:55 +0000

Both art and sex stimulate people in non-physical ways, but I think each has its own non-comparable qualities. Cognitive play is necessary because our brains are muscles. As we work out physically we must also work our brains consistently. To me its amazing that one would compare art and sex, sex is something you can directly compare to your lifestyle/choices (involves you), art can be anything refer to blotches and random strokes to amazing combinations of metal/glass/ materials, in which case is is mind boggling to figure out how each one was created, stimulating curiosity and enlarging your realm of creativity…. doing this stuff often is bound to evolve our race over time

By: Steven prsha

Steven prsha — Wed, 14 May 2008 20:41:50 +0000

Mill believed the simple pleasures or “lower pleasures” tend to be preferred by people who have no experience with high pleasures such as art. Mill would agree with what you have to say. “the higher pleasures are to be valued more highly than the lower pleasures.” but I feel this is only because his friendship/relationship with Harriet Taylor was never sexual. Mill was married for 7 years to Taylor before she died and there is still no evidence that they ever had sex because their marriage was more of a friendship. So Mill would have no ground to talk about the pleasure of sex because he doesn’t have any experience on the matter. He was so hooked on the teachings from Bentham, and he got his pleasure by reading books. He was never able to enjoy the lower levels of pleasure you get from good friends and fun activities(except for Harriet). Reading a couple books is interesting, but riding a rollercoaster is much more fun and pleasureable.

By: Huan

Huan — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 19:10:14 +0000

I suppose their argument really is attempting to overcome the shortcomings of pleasure seeking, and not denying pleasure seeking. Maybe they’re just not aware of it.

By: Paul Moloney

Paul Moloney — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 17:07:53 +0000

It seems that people that campaign against pleasure do so for the sake of pleasure, which means they have not argument against pleasure.