Re "A wise man views women as corpses, bags of urine and faeces.": These remarks have a long history. See Marcus Aurelius's cynical advice: "Sexual intercourse is the rubbing together of abdomens, accompanied by the spasmodic ejaculation of a sticky liquid".
These maxims which try to reduce sexual love to something unworthy of a noble man miss the mark. An adolescent infatuated with an "ordinary" girl is far closer to the real. As Oscar Wilde said: ""It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances." They say "Love is blind" - but I say that anyone who sees his beloved as someone miraculous has realised that life, our very existence, our realisation that even being born is something incredibly unlikely and a unique opportunity must experience a sense of astonishment and wonder. Falling in love is probably the closest most people get to approaching that sense; a few philosophers don't need sexual love but that is not because they are above the common herd (with a sneer on their faces) but rather because they walk around in a daze in which even the vision of a garden of flowers can astonish and elevate their consciousness.
