Abstract
Abstract One year following the death of Alfred C. Kinsey (1894-1956), Georges Bataille narrowed in on the difficulties of Western science to quantify and solve the problem of eroticism - or that which arouses us sexually.1 For Bataille, eroticism presented man with the greatest mystery, while unleashing a problem ‘more urgent’ than work. Work, Bataille reasoned, was more fully within our meallS to control, and was easily overshadowed by the ‘problem of problems’ — the nature of eroticism and our inability to grasp an understanding of its overwhelming powers. Bataille wrote, ‘in that he is an erotic animal, man is a problem for himself. Eroticism is the problematic part of ourselves . . . Of all problems eroticism is the most mysterious, the most general and the least straightforward.’ From his writings on eroticism and, more specifically, his essay ‘Kinsey, The Underworld and Work’, it is clear today that Bataille hastened to criticize the legacy of influence wrought by Dr Kinsey's monumental Sexual Beha...
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