HeyJaredThe Libertine Gospel
The Libertine Gospel is a manifesto in motion—a newsletter for those who exalt freedom above obedience, instinct above inhibition, and the raw splendor of the individual above the trembling morality of the herd.
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The Moonlit Garden (opens the original)
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I stand beneath the moon this very night, and I feel the cool rays cascade over me as if they were liquid silk poured from some celestial chalice. At nineteen, Caitlyn, my lover, took moon baths—first of all, because everyone else took sun baths, and second, she admitted, because she had been told it was dangerous. I’m like Caitlyn now, or rather, I am the echo of her defiance living in this present flesh, and I claim these words as my own. I strip away the last of my garments and lie upon the g
Love is Easy, Possession is the Lie (opens the original)
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Love is the simplest of nature’s gifts; possession, the basest of man’s inventions. That pure and unbridled impulse which nature herself has planted in the blood—call it love, desire, or what you will—is the easiest sensation I have ever known. It arrives without petition, asks no leave of society, and departs without apology. Yet the contracts, which women and the timid of both sexes are pleased to term “romantic relationships,” are the hardest of all tyrannies. The longer I live, the more fier
A Critique of Philippe Jacques van Bree’s Painting ‘The Harem Bath’ by Ronald MacLennan (opens the original)
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Pleasure Without Apology: A Libertine Reading of Philippe-Jacques van Brée’s The Harem Bath Philippe-Jacques van Brée’s The Harem Bath (c. 1830) does not apologize for what it is. It stages a world in which the senses rule, moral restraint has been suspended, and the body exists for the pure pursuit of sensation. Libertinism begins with a simple, uncompromising claim: physical pleasure is the highest good. Conventional morality, whether Christian, bourgeois, or civic, is an artificial restraint
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