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Why are sex and money deeply connected?

When sex is repressed, its energy transforms into greed, making money a substitute lover that promises what the heart truly desires.

— Osho
According to Osho, sex and money are linked because money is institutionalized power that can buy bodies, turning women into property, from harems to prostitution; and psychologically, when sex is repressed, its energy is displaced into greed—money becomes a substitute lover and idol. Thus wealth amplifies sexual access externally, while inner suppression converts sexual longing into compulsive accumulation.

Money can buy sex on the outside, and when we push sex down inside, that same energy clings to money instead.