# What IS Sex?

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- Book: [What IS Sex?](https://www.bookquiver.com/alenka-zupancic/what-is-sex) ([What IS Sex?.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/alenka-zupancic/what-is-sex.md))
- Authors: [Alenka Zupancic](https://www.bookquiver.com/alenka-zupancic)
- Publisher: the_mit_press
- ISBN: 978-02-6253-413-0
- Pages: 162
- Published: 2017-09-08
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Why sexuality is at the point of a “short circuit” between ontology and epistemology. Consider sublimation—conventionally understood as a substitute satisfaction for missing sexual satisfaction....