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The now dominant figure of contemporary sexuality is sexuality split between its function of pure enjoyment (jouissance), which flourishes in “sex”, and its purely reproductive function, as implemented in practices of medically assisted procreation (MAP), which take place “independently of sex”. Two mutually exclusive model ideals have thus emerged which increasingly polarise demands, but at the price of a dissociation between people and their bodies, between their bodies and their flesh, because in all cases we are dealing with an undertaking of production – of enjoyment or of a child –, of a mechanical nature. Now as this splitting occurs against the background of human sexuality which is one and indivisible, analogies and mirror-effects between these two poles are to be expected. And it is through an approach in terms of optics, where the scopophilic impulse and the impulse for mastery dominate, that we can begin to discover what is going on.