this is a dialogue between irving goh and jean-luc nancy following nancy’s book Sexistence, which i haven’t read. the dialogue, an interview of nancy, according to goh’s introduction, takes in account current political sex events and the #metoo movement which occurred after the publication of Sexistence—the positive outcome of the movement, exposure of sexual harassment and rape by men in power and the dicey outcome for men pursuing sexual activities, a sort of contractual step by step request of permission for each touch, caress, kiss, for each act of sex, making sex without passion and spontaneity boring.without going into the politics of sex as goh wants , nancy’s remarks circle the contractual aspect by asking what is sex anyway. as a deconstruction of sex, a distancing from the physicality of sex, deconstruction becomes sex and sex becomes deconstruction. distanced from the physical act, the men can discuss sex as penetration, penetration as deconstruction, deconstruction as penetration as force. in other works, nancy has discussed force and violence and the difference forms and uses of violence. here he speaks of force in sex as a kind of mimicry of violence, which, removed from the physical act, for nancy ‘ the sexual act is like a work of art without a work or a public.’ there are instead caresses and language from literature. within this language of sex, this philosophy of the sensual and sensation, nancy quoted a surreal description of a vagina by none other than henry miller. sex as an art process discussed by the two men and poeticized by nancy becomes a song to eros.had nancy more time, he might have addressed the question, how can one sing of sexual pleasure in the climate of sexual harassment? in the afterward written by claire colebrook, she refuses to sing of sexual pleasure. she carries the political forward, discussing forms of sexual violence against women in her piece, Sex and the Killjoy.the interview and the afterword aren’t different beliefs or text and rebuttal. while in agreement of the misuses of sex as violence, nancy and colebrook approach sex within our time from perspectives of the different concerns that drew them to philosophy. however you gravitate toward one or both of these pieces, what should not be overlooked are how two different styles of deconstruction are at work.