The word "sex" is wrong to begin with because it is fragmentation. It automatically creates pornography. If you want to create pornography you just separate some aspect of sex and life from everything else. That is pornography. It is fragmentation. Sentimentality is the same way. Take a rich emotion, break it up into bits and you have sentimentality. Sex is fragmentation. The mere abstracting of the word or the concept from the whole complex of lived social existence is unreal. So it is a very good point to begin the investigation by simply challenging the right of that word to exist except as a classification of male and female. Otherwise it probably has no right to exist.
--Marshall McLuhan, Education in the Electronic Age,
in The Best of Times/The Worst of Times:
Contemporary Issues in Canadian Education, 1970
