sexual purity

I don’t find this much in Taoist texts but in Western mystical or kundalini writings there is huge emphasis on the importance of the purity of our sexual essence and the delicate balance it has in our spirit/bodymind etc.

So for example Samael Aun Weor has written: “Within the organism, there are certain canals through which this powerful energy must normally circulate. When this energy infiltrates the delicate mechanism of other functions, failure is the violent outcome. In this case, extremely delicate centers in the human organism are damaged, and in fact, the individual becomes an infrasexual…Sex is the creative function through which the human being is a true God. Any negative mental attitude towards sex produces infiltration of this powerful energy into other functions, which provokes frightening catastrophes, fatally resulting in infrasexuality.”

And DH Lawrence also wrote a very deep and profound article called Pornography and Obscenity, and in it he says: “The sex functions and the excrementary functions in the human body work so close together, yet they are, so to speak, utterly different in direction. Sex is a creative flow, the excrementary flow is towards dissolution, de-creation…”

“In the really healthy human being the distinction between the two is instant, our profoundest instincts are perhaps our instincts of opposition between the two flows…But in the degraded human being the deep instincts have gone dead, and then the two flows become identical. This is the secret of really vulgar people and of pornography: the sex flow and the excrement flow is the same thing to them. It happens when the psyche deteriorates, and the profound controlling instincts collapse. Then sex is dirt and dirt is sex, and sexual excitement becomes a playing with dirt, and any sign of sex in a woman becomes a show of her dirt”.

And also Gurdjieff had some things to say about orgasms before adulthood and how it permanently messes up your centers of being.

What are Daoists’ take on this issue, if they have any? It seems like alchemy is pretty straightforward, just constantly save up your fluid and transmute the alchemical pill or whatever. They only talk about the purely physical consequences of ‘wasting’ the fluid through sexual activity, like how it can lead to diseases and premature death. But what about the consequences for spirit or consciousness? I mean pornography is rampant nowadays and the whole western culture of sex seems to be built around this sense of dirt, degradation, objectivization and pushing sex into the head with all kinds of digital and visual stimuli, and I’ve certainly indulged in my fair share of all that. Am I just being naive when I think that just because I’m still sexually potent I’ve got all the cosmological treasures inside of me? What if there really is some fatal line that has already been crossed?