"...not liberty but extremity."

So writes Jason Farago on Sade as a conclusion. Yet there is no exploration of the sexual without pushing the boundaries. A sense of reliving the beginning is always present and strongly among most people and that, in the bigger picture, is always an attempt to extend what before was unknown and unfelt. Turning the Adam's fall around: how could he be free if he was not to go and look to new lands which were gated prior to taking a bite of the forbidden fruit. While he lost the carefree freedom in the garden he gained something much bigger. This liberty came only with expansion, exploration, a slight poke into the unknown extremity.       While being unambiguous becomes difficult the point here is that either liberty is not opposed entirely to some extremity or there is a dance and mingle between the two.
  Placidity seems a clearer opposition to extremity. The opposite of placidity is vibrancy - and now we have a break because liberty could not be without a spicy dose of latter.