all these variations on that Dune (?) quotation using “little death” to mean some sort of obstacle to progress in life or something, when I had previously never seen it mean anything else except orgasm
I must not self-censor. Sex-positivity is the mind-healer. Orgasm is the little-death that brings total satisfaction. I will face my sex drive. I will permit it to pass over me and through me (over and over and harder and faster). And when it has gone I will turn the inner vibrator off to clear its path. Where the orgasm has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
Fun fact: In the sequel book Children of Dune, the author Frank Herbert uses one of the most amazing euphemisms for an erection of all times:
“An adult beefswelling”