A Thought on Sensuality and Pleasure

We can look at something an infinite amount of times and never be able to explain it. For thousands of years humanity did this with the stars. It failed through most of its history to give reasonable answers to what the celestial dots above them were. It hasn't been till recently that we've made progress. 

Our senses are not enough to help us understand what is true about the world. It can only experience what's at face value in the same way that looking at the stars night after night does. No profound explanations come from this. It's because the truth about our world goes beyond face value. Sensory data is rarely ever enough to develop any good theory especially one that will stand the test of time. 

When we're pulled in by the sensual then we're confronted by the opportunity to try and see past the initial display of what is attracting us. What's the substance behind what we're experiencing though? What's holding it all together? To begin to answer these questions takes work, which is why we mostly opt to simply find pleasure in them and nothing more. 

To embrace this attitude towards stars is one thing, but can we do the same when applied to people? Is it enough to suspend our sensual experience of a person at pleasure and ignore the complexity propping it up?