Far from building a wall between the aesthetic and the sexual, Nietzsche sees them as intimately linked: “The demand for art and beauty is an indirect demand for the ecstasies of sexuality” (WP §805). The two experiences really share the same structure and phenomenology. As with sexual experience, if there is to be “any aesthetic doing or seeing, one physiological condition is indispensable: rapture” (TI IX, 8). And the pleasure that one receives is not a disembodied, cognitive pleasure—a unique kind of experience that would set us apart from animals. No,