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The Unbearable Lightness of Being Part 6, Chapter 4

By Milan Kundera

Part 6, Chapter 4

Similarly, theologians considered the question of whether or not Adam and Eve had sex in the Garden of Eden.
A ninth century theologian posited that they did, but that Adam was in complete control of when he was and was not aroused. There was no involuntary sexual excitement for him.
The narrator associates man's ability to feel excited with his ability to feel disgust. Both were off limits to Adam in Paradise.
The narrator reminds you that, in Part 3 of this novel, he showed you Sabina standing naked with the bowler hat on her bed, next to a fully dressed Tomas.
She was excited by the thought of her own denigration in front of him, and she fantasized about letting Tomas watch her defecate.

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