Blake`s advocacy of human desires may be said to have somewhat political implications when it is read in the context of the contemporary discourse on sex and population. Malthus, in his famous Essay that triggered nationwide sex panic, suggested moral virtue and the restraint from marriages as a powerful check on increasing population. He even denies the poor the right to subsistence, blaming their poverty on their moral laxity. Francis Place, severely attacking his prejudice, contradicts all of his assertions in detail from the view point of the poor laboring class. In Every Woman`s Book Richard Carlile, on the other hand, positively asserts the value and importance of sexual love. Then he turns his attack on the prohibitive moral code of Christianity that has denigrated love into a fancied sin. He attributes prostitution and other sexual perversions to the mistaken notions of chastity and its hypocrisies. Blake seems to have in mind these contemporary discourses on sex when he emphatically reiterated his condemnation of reason and eulogy on desires. In this respect, Blake`s indignation over sexual repression should be considered to be a way of expressing his outcry for political emancipation on the part of the impoverished class. (Youngdong University)