Sex is power

Oscar Wilde said “Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.”

This is what I think

1. The desire for power is driven by human emotional issues, and
2. Almost 99% of these emotional issues also lead to exaggerated sexual behaviour,
3. Which is nature’s way of getting us to reproduce as widely as possible
4. So where you see the power-hungry behaviour you can assume there is also a correlated sexual-hungry behaviour

But

1. Many people with emotional issues are not power-hungry, and
2. They still may have the correlated sexual-hungry behaviour

So

1. Power-hungry behaviour is correlated to sexual-hungry behaviour, but sexual-hungry behaviour is not always correlated to power-hungry behaviour

And

1. There are some people with no real power and no chance of getting it
2. But yet they may have many emotional issues
3. So the only real option for them is to use sex as a tool for power

I think this all got muddled up in people’s mind and Oscar Wilde merged all the options into one catchy, but flawed, line and it stuck for good.