Why do we suppress sexuality?

Following is an excerpt from a samvaad (dialogue) session with Acharya Prashant.

Questioner: I want to talk about sexuality. Are there ways in which a person can healthily express sexuality?

Acharya Prashant: Whatever we do is an expression.

Breath is an expression, eating is an expression, these hand gestures they are an expression, and the way you are nodding your head is an expression, the way I do my hair is an expression. Everything that we do, every bit of what we are is an expression.

Even repression is an expression. Please understand this.

Even repression is an expression. We have decided, for example as society, as a culture, which parts of body to publicly hide and which parts to publicly declare — that is an expression of what we are, is that not?

So, even repression is an expression. What does expression mean? Expression means manifestation. So what you are, and by that, I mean the quality of your mind, that is certainly going to be expressed. So there is hardly any question of separate enquiry into the expression of sexuality.

You see, do we repress only our sexual urges?

Listener: Of course not!

AP: We repress everything.