Here are two quotes about sex with academics from novels that make me think twice about pursuing my phd.

"He was still wrestling with this quaint moral dilemma several hours later in her apartment, when Lilith announced that she wanted to investigate with him the interpenetration of power, sexuality, and the pleasures of the text. In practice this meant taking turns tying each other to her futon with an Ace bandage and declaiming "transgressive things" to each other like porn stars."

-The Lecturer's Tale

"There was sex, of course, but although both of them were extremely interested in sex, and enjoyed nothing better than discussing it, neither of them, if the truth be told, was quite so interested in having it very frequently. ...Sexual desire was a play of signifiers, an infinite deferment and displacement of anticipated pleasure which brute coupling of the signifieds temporarily interrupted. Charles...seemed to approach sex as a form of research, favouring techniques of foreplay so subtle and prolonged that Robyn occasionally dozed off in the middle of them, and wourld wake with a guilty start to find him still crouched studiously over her body, fingering it like a box of index cards."

- Nice Work

Come on people, does this really sound like the type of world I should be involved in?