the sex center plays a very great part in our life

The sex center plays a very great part in our life. 75% of our thoughts come from this center, and they color all the rest.

Views from the Real World p. 126

the chasteness of the monks

Why do religions forbid the sexual act?

Gurdjieff: Because originally we knew the use of this substance, whence the chasteness of the monks. Now we have forgotten this knowledge and there only remains the prohibition which attracts to the monks quantities of specific disorders and illnesses. Look at the priests where they grow "fat like pigs" (the concern about eating dominating them), or they are "skinny as the devil" (and they have inside little love for their neighbor); the fat are less dangerous and certainly more gentle.

Gurdjieff Meeting Paris 8.April 1943

Sex is necessary for health and the equilibrium of the body

For the same reason that you go to the bathroom for this maintenance, you must go to the bathroom for the second excrement which is rejected from you by the sexual function. It is necessary for health and the equilibrium of the body; and certainly it is necessary in some to do it each day, in others each week, in others again every month or every six months. It is subjective. For this you must choose a proper bathroom. One that is good for you.

It is not necessary to mingle the acts of sex with sentiment. It is sometimes abnormal to make them coincide. The sexual act is a function. One can regard it as external to him, although love is internal. Love is love. It has no need of sex. It can be felt for a person of the same sex, for an animal even, and the sexual function is not mixed up there. Sometimes it is normal to unite them, this corresponds to one of the aspects of love. It is easier to love this way. But at the same time it is then difficult to remain impartial as love demands. Likewise if one considers the sexual function as necessary medically, why would one love a remedy, a medicine? The sexual act originally must have been performed only for the purpose of reproduction of the species, but little by little men have made of it a means of pleasure. It must have been a sacred act. One must know that this divine seed, the Sperm, has another function, that of the construction of a second body in us, from whence the sentence, Happy he who understands the function of the exioehary for the transformation of his being. Unhappy he who uses them in a unilateral manner.

Gurdjieff Meeting Paris 8.April 1943

energy for a high purpose

He said that sex, being basically the source of all energy and therefore, potentially, the well-spring, for example, of art, had also become for most people nothing more than the most titillating diversion of the many forms of amusement known to modern man. Because of this, energy that could be used - and was destined to be used - for a serious, and high purpose, was simply wasted; thrown away in a frantic chase after pleasure. While he did not specifically condemn other ordinary, civilized habits, he criticized it from the point of view that any waste is improper to man.

My Jouney with a Mystic p.231

Sex - the source of all energy

In the primary sense, the purpose of sex was reproduction, which was actually only a synonym for creation. Love, therefore, in any sense - whether physical or not - had to be creative. He also said that there was a proper form of what might be called "sublimation" of sexual energy; that sex was the source of all energy and when not used reproductively could still be used in an equally creative sense when sublimated and used as energy for other types of creativity. One of the misuses of sex that had arisen through bad training, the wrong type of education, and improper habits, was that it had become almost the only vital form of human communication. It was possible for people to "join actively" in other ways than physically, to, as he put it, "touch each other's essences", but human beings had lost this faculty many, many years - many centuries - ago.

My Jouney with a Mystic p.178