Justice & Law Quote by Robert Anton Wilson

Wilson smuggles a whole sociology seminar into the deadpan cadence of a commandment. “There is one universal sex law” sounds like Moses; the punchline is that the only universal rule is that someone, somewhere, will insist on rules. It’s a neat inversion: instead of sex being the unruly force society struggles to contain, regulation becomes the truly constant human behavior. The joke lands because it treats moral panic as a law of nature, not a quirk of any one religion or era.

The phrasing “shall not be unregulated” is doing double work. It’s bureaucratic, almost legalese, which turns intimacy into an administrative problem. That’s Wilson’s satirist move: he isn’t arguing about which sexual norms are right, he’s exposing the infrastructure of control that underwrites every supposedly “natural” norm. The subtext is Foucauldian without the footnotes: power doesn’t merely forbid; it organizes, categorizes, and makes sex legible to institutions - churches, states, families, even self-help culture.

Context matters because Wilson spent his career needling consensus reality, especially the way authority manufactures certainty. Coming out of the postwar American mix of Cold War conformity, the sexual revolution, and rising culture wars, he’s pointing at a paradox: even liberation movements often recreate a new rulebook (just with different saints and sinners). The line isn’t cynical about sex; it’s cynical about our recurring need to turn sex into a referendum on social order.