Research question: To what extent is sexuality not simply a means of gaining or increasing pleasure, but a catalyst, a medium with which something that is inside our bodies is processed? I came up with this question after a conversation with friends about shame. The general consensus is that shame is a bad thing and has to go so that we can finally be liberated. Although I don't think this is entirely wrong, something inside me resists. It seems too simple to me - and if it were so simple, why haven't we got rid of shame long ago? It also resists because I am afraid of the short-circuit reaction of simply suppressing the shame and pretending not to be ashamed. And as we all know, everything that has been repressed comes back at some point, finds its cracks and niches to creep back to the surface. It can't simply be pushed away, it has to be dealt with. On top of that, I fear that people will start to feel ashamed of being ashamed or that shame-shaming will occur. Last but not least, there are a lot of very unpleasant contemporaries who behave shamelessly and who make you wish your superego was stronger...