A comprehensive sexual ethic cannot regard sex merely as a natural hunger and a possible source of danger. ... The three that seem paramount are lyric love, happiness in marriage, and art. ... Art is thought by some to be independent of sex, but this view has fewer adherents now than it had in former times. It is fairly clear that the impulse to every kind of aesthetic creation is psychologically connected with courtship, not necessarily in any direct or obvious way, but none the less profoundly.
Source: Bertrand Russell :Marriage and Morals, 1929
More info.: https://russell-j.com/beginner/MM20-060.HTM