Always in a Trance

So this Art of Loving book is saying that primitive tribes used to take hallucinogenic drugs and have massive orgies to help cure their own alienation from the world and each other. In our modern time they would be considered alcoholics or addicts.

The sexual experience, particularly the Orgasm, delivers people away from their anxiety and loneliness for a certain amount of time, until the tension builds and the anxiety is released by performing these sexual rituals over and over again.

So the fact that I have this overwhelming need to masturbate two to three times a day is quite bad, when you look at it this way!