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The style of life chosen by the beat generation, the rhythm and ritual they have adopted as uniquely their own, is designed to enhance the value of the sexual experience.
Jazz is good not only because it promotes wholeness but because of its decided sexual effect.
Jazz is the musical language of sex, the vocabulary of the orgasm ; ;
indeed, it is maintained that the sexual element in jazz, by freeing the listener of his inhibitions, can have therapeutic value.
That is why, the argument runs, the squares are so fearful of jazz and yet perversely fascinated by it.
Instead of giving themselves spontaneously to the orgiastic release that jazz can give them, they undergo psychoanalysis or flirt with mysticism or turn to prostitutes for satisfaction.
Thus jazz is transmuted into something holy, the sacred road to integration of being.
Jazz, like sex, is a mystique.
It is not a substitute for sex but a dynamic expression of the creative impulse in unfettered man.

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