Notes:
The Da Vinci Code is not a sex book. And yet it is a book very
much about sex.
As we progress through the novel, we find more references to sexual
repression in the church. We read about sexual rituals
that allow one to truly know God. And we see the church through
the eyes of non-believers: a church that is so power-hungry it
suppresses a natural, pleasurable act given by God to be fully enjoyed by humans.
The Da Vinci Code is ultimately—when pressed to its not-so-logical conclusion—
an appeal for free sex, separate from the parameters established by God.
This is one factor that will make The Da Vinci Code quite popular:
giving people the approval to fulfill their desires with no commitment,
no strings attached. Unfortunately, this kind of "freedom" comes at a
very high cost in today's world.
Brown's Hieros Gamos is no sacred union. It is simply free sex disguised by
using Neo-Pagan quasi-religious language. A prime example of this fact is
seen when Robert Langdon tells of lecturing a group of students at Harvard
about finding "divinity" during times of sex.