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the expression of identity through sex and as influenced by or based on sex. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Quotes">Quotes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sexuality&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Quotes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <dl><dd><small>Alphabetized by author </small></dd></dl> <ul><li>Although humans tend to view sex as mainly a fun recreational activity sometimes resulting in <a href="/wiki/Death" title="Death">death</a>, in <a href="/wiki/Nature" title="Nature">nature</a> it is a far more serious matter. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Dave_Barry" title="Dave Barry">Dave Barry</a>, "Dave Barry's Complete Guide to Guys"</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I see the birth of a new-boy system instead of the old-boy system. The new-boy system consists of <a href="/wiki/Athletic" class="mw-redirect" title="Athletic">athletic</a> <a href="/wiki/Men" class="mw-redirect" title="Men">men</a> who are self-confident and intelligent enough to be supportive of <a href="/wiki/Women" title="Women">women</a>, particularly those with their own self-confidence, sexual athleticism and <a href="/wiki/Intelligence" title="Intelligence">intelligence</a>. Men find these qualities in me a "turn on". <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suzy_Chaffee" class="extiw" title="w:Suzy Chaffee">Suzy Chaffee</a> quoted in <i>Machisma: Women & Daring</i>, by Grace Lichtenstein (1981)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>No-one was ever made wretched in a <a href="/wiki/Brothel" class="mw-redirect" title="Brothel">brothel</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cyril_Connolly" title="Cyril Connolly">Cyril Connolly</a>. <i>The Unquiet Era</i>, 1944</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Women need a reason to have sex while all men need is a place. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Billy_Crystal" title="Billy Crystal">Billy Crystal</a> The Oprah Winfrey Show</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>As <a href="/wiki/Charles_Darwin" title="Charles Darwin">Darwin</a> puts it in <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Descent_of_Man" class="extiw" title="w:The Descent of Man">The Descent of Man</a></i>, 'Male <a href="/wiki/Snakes" title="Snakes">snakes</a>, though appearing so sluggish, are amorous.' Isn't that just like Darwin? It was one of his main ideas, you know, that the males of almost all <a href="/wiki/Animals" title="Animals">animals</a> have stronger passions than the females. Since then we've learned a thing or two. At any rate, the female snake is right there when spring arrives in the woods. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Will_Cuppy" title="Will Cuppy">Will Cuppy</a>, <i>How to Become Extinct</i>, 1941</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexually_transmitted_diseases" class="extiw" title="w:Sexually transmitted diseases">Sexually transmitted diseases</a>, ranging from the serious to the fatal, are a fact of life in high schools and <a href="/wiki/Community" title="Community">neighborhoods</a> across the country. Misinformation and scare tactics about common sexual practices like <a href="/wiki/Masturbation" title="Masturbation">masturbation</a> are rampant. Despite these facts, and despite <a href="/wiki/Parenting" title="Parenting">parents</a>' overwhelming desire for their <a href="/wiki/Children" title="Children">children</a> to receive detailed sex education at school as well as at home, our society remains unwilling to make sexuality part of a comprehensive <a href="/wiki/Health" title="Health">health</a> education program in the schools and anxious to the point of hysteria about <a href="/wiki/Youth" title="Youth">young people</a> and sex...<b>Hysteria about sex has hindered attempts to address these pressing concerns, and the people hurt most are those who most need the information—our young people, the <a href="/wiki/Poverty" title="Poverty">poor</a>, and the uninformed.</b> <a href="/wiki/Ignorance" title="Ignorance">Ignorance</a> is not <a href="/wiki/Bliss" title="Bliss">bliss</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Joycelyn_Elders" title="Joycelyn Elders">Joycelyn Elders</a>, forward to <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmful_to_Minors" class="extiw" title="w:Harmful to Minors">Harmful to Minors: The Perils of Protecting Children from Sex</a></i> (2002), <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_Levine" class="extiw" title="w:Judith Levine">Judith Levine</a>, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0816640068" title="Special:BookSources/0816640068">ISBN 0816640068 </a> pp. ix, x. <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://www.ipce.info/library_3/pdf/harmfultominors.pdf">[1]</a> <small>In contrast to Elders' views, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_Reisman" class="extiw" title="w:Judith Reisman">Judith Reisman</a> has stated that "The damage done to <a href="/wiki/Children" title="Children">children</a> from <a href="/wiki/Sex" class="mw-redirect" title="Sex">sexual relations</a> with adults-what the public thought was molestation-was almost always, <b>in <a href="/wiki/Alfred_Kinsey" title="Alfred Kinsey">Kinsey's view</a>, the result of overreaction and hysteria by <a href="/wiki/Parents" class="mw-redirect" title="Parents">parents</a>, <a href="/wiki/Teachers" title="Teachers">schoolteachers</a>, police, etc.</b> But one aspect of Kinsey's research was completely missed by everyone. That was the <b><a href="/wiki/Crime" title="Crime">criminal</a> childhood sexuality experimentation which formed the basis of Kinsey's conclusions on childhood sexual potential</b>. The results of these experiments are the basis for beliefs on childhood sexuality held and taught by <a href="/wiki/Academia" title="Academia">academic</a> sexologists today." <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_Reisman" class="extiw" title="w:Judith Reisman">Judith Reisman</a>, <i>Kinsey, Sex and Fraud: The Indoctrination of a People</i> (1990), Judith Reisman, Huntington House, Lafayette, LA. <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/091031120X" title="Special:BookSources/091031120X">ISBN 091031120X</a> p. 3. <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.drjudithreisman.com/archives/Kinsey_Sex_and_Fraud.pdf">[2]</a><a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://books.google.com/books?ei=E961VIrNB8ycNoipgSg&id=GM5-AAAAMAAJ&dq=%22damage+done+to+children%22+kinsey&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=%22damage+done+to+children%22">[3]</a></small></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The twenty-first century has seen wider acknowledgment of the fact that human sexuality is much more complex than the rigid and unchanging categories of heterosexual, homosexual or bisexual can express; the experiences of trans people are just one part of this increased sexual diversity. In the case of non-binary people – whose gender identities and expressions may sit outside of the categories of man and woman, or move between the two – the nineteenth-century categories of human sexuality make little sense – which is why the term ‘queer’ has risen in popularity. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Shon_Faye" title="Shon Faye">Shon Faye</a>, <cite style="font-style:normal" class="book"><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Transgender_Issue" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:The Transgender Issue">The Transgender Issue</a>: An Argument for Justice</i>. Allen Lane. 2021. <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-241-42314-1" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-241-42314-1">ISBN 978-0-241-42314-1</a>.</cite><span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=%5B%5B%3Awikipedia%3AThe+Transgender+Issue%7CThe+Transgender+Issue%5D%5D%3A+An+Argument+for+Justice&rft.date=2021&rft.pub=Allen+Lane&rft.isbn=978-0-241-42314-1&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Sexuality"><span style="display: none;"> </span></span> Chapter Six</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Sexual frustration is the single most powerful force in the world. We are the only species where that frustration affects things like the amount of <a href="/wiki/Money" title="Money">money</a> given to the poor and the length of <a href="/wiki/Welfare" title="Welfare">welfare</a> lines. I hate that the fact that <a href="/wiki/George_H._W._Bush" title="George H. W. Bush">George Bush</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Barbara_Bush" title="Barbara Bush">wife</a> is an ugly old piece of shit could cause suffering among millions and could cause <a href="/wiki/War" title="War">wars</a>. I don't think it's any coincidence that <a href="/wiki/John_F._Kennedy" title="John F. Kennedy">Kennedy</a> was the last <a href="/wiki/President_of_the_United_States" title="President of the United States">president</a> who had a <a href="/wiki/Jacqueline_Kennedy_Onassis" title="Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis">wife</a> worth fucking and he was the last good president. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_Frusciante" title="John Frusciante">John Frusciante</a> <i>Spin Magazine Interview</i>, Feb, 1990.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>It’s the <a href="/wiki/Strange" class="mw-redirect" title="Strange">strange</a> thing about this church, it is obsessed with <a href="/wiki/Sex" class="mw-redirect" title="Sex">sex</a>, absolutely <a href="/w/index.php?title=Obsessed&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Obsessed (page does not exist)">obsessed</a>. Now, they will say we with our permissive <a href="/wiki/Society" title="Society">society</a> and our rude <a href="/wiki/Jokes" class="mw-redirect" title="Jokes">jokes</a>, we are obsessed. No, we have a <a href="/wiki/Healthy" class="mw-redirect" title="Healthy">healthy</a> <a href="/wiki/Attitude" title="Attitude">attitude</a>, we like it, it’s <a href="/wiki/Fun" title="Fun">fun</a>, it’s <a href="/wiki/Jolly" class="mw-redirect" title="Jolly">jolly</a>, because it’s a primary impulse it can be <a href="/wiki/Dangerous" class="mw-redirect" title="Dangerous">dangerous</a> and <a href="/wiki/Dark" class="mw-redirect" title="Dark">dark</a> and <a href="/wiki/Difficult" class="mw-redirect" title="Difficult">difficult</a>, it’s a bit like <a href="/wiki/Food" title="Food">food</a> in that respect only even more exciting. The only people who are obsessed with food are <a href="/w/index.php?title=Anorexics&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Anorexics (page does not exist)">anorexics</a> and the morbidly <a href="/wiki/Obese" class="mw-redirect" title="Obese">obese</a>, and that in <a href="/wiki/Erotic" class="mw-redirect" title="Erotic">erotic</a> terms is the <a href="/wiki/Catholic_Church" title="Catholic Church">Catholic Church</a> in a nutshell. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Stephen_Fry" title="Stephen Fry">Stephen Fry</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZRcYaAYWg4">"The Catholic church is a force for good in the world"</a>, <i>Intelligence Squared Catholic Church Debate</i>, (November 7th 2009).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Appropriate patterns of reproductive, gender, and sexual conduct are all products of specific cultures and all can be viewed as examples of socially scripted conduct. Western societies now have a system of gender and sexual learning in which gender differential scripts are learned prior to sexual scripts, but take their origins in part from the previously learned gender scripts... There are two important points: The first is that both gender and sexuality are learned forms of social practice, and the second is that looking to "natural differences" between women and men for lessons about sexual conduct is an error. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_Gagnon" title="John Gagnon">John Gagnon</a>, "The Eplicit and Implicit Use of the Scripting Perspective in Sex Research", 1990</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>It is precisely because I believe it is not possible to neatly separate the sexual from other sorts of relations that I find the movement to bar the sexual from pedagogy not only dangerous but supremely impractical. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Gallop" class="extiw" title="w:Jane Gallop">Jane Gallop</a>, "Feminism and Harassment Policy"</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The dilemma of traditional sex research lay in the unconscious, but unquestioningly assumed division into opposing <i>drives</i> and <i>hereditary factors</i>. . . The division into <a href="/wiki/Heterosexuality" title="Heterosexuality">heterosexuality</a> and <a href="/wiki/Homosexuality" title="Homosexuality">homosexuality</a>, into heterosexuals and homosexuals, is also an artifact that rests on a grave mistake, namely, on the assumption that a fundamentally different model is necessary to explain heterosexual and homosexual behavior. The entire investigation of etiology was ideologically loaded beforehand because it separated a segment of the sexual continuum and attempted to make analyses with the help of fundamentally different concepts. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Rolf_Gindorf" title="Rolf Gindorf">Rolf Gindorf</a>, "Scientific ideologies in change: Fear of Homosexuality as an Intellectual Event", 1977</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>However much people might be enlightened about their own sexuality, indeed about sexuality in general, there is always in them a modicum of some subconscious aversion to the knowledge that their own parents too are beings with the same kind of sexual needs and desires, which they actually put into practice, more or less regularly. Everyone knows that they weren’t brought by the stork, and yet, where it is the actual sex act that is at issue, as far as it concerns their own parents, most people would rather that they had been. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanka_Gjuri%C4%87" class="extiw" title="w:Stanka Gjurić">Stanka Gjurić</a>, "The Lesson of Impudence"</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>When authorities warn you of the sinfulness of sex, there is an important lesson to be learned. Do not have sex with the authorities. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Matt_Groening" title="Matt Groening">Matt Groening</a>, From "Basic Sex Facts For Today's Youngfolk" In Life In Hell</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The loneliest place in this world is the no-man's-land of sex. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radclyffe_Hall" class="extiw" title="w:Radclyffe Hall">Radclyffe Hall</a>, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Well_of_Loneliness" class="extiw" title="w:The Well of Loneliness">The Well of Loneliness</a></i> (1928), Book 1, Chapter 8.3</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Maybe God isn't the sex police, Richard. Sometimes I think <a href="/wiki/Christianity" title="Christianity">Christians</a> get all hung up on the sex thing because it's easier to worry about sex than to ask yourself, <i>am I a good person?</i> <i>[…]</i> It makes it easy to be cruel, because as long as you're not fucking around, nothing you do can be that bad. Is that really all you think of God? <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_Blake" class="extiw" title="w:Anita Blake">Anita Blake</a>, to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Zeeman" class="extiw" title="w:Richard Zeeman">Richard Zeeman</a></li> <li><cite style="font-style:normal" class="book" id="CITEREFLaurell_K._Hamilton2007"><a href="/wiki/Laurell_K._Hamilton" title="Laurell K. Hamilton">Laurell K. Hamilton</a> (June 2007). "chapter 44". <i>The Harlequin</i> (1st ed.). Berkley Books. pp. pp. 391-392. <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-425-21724-5" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-425-21724-5">ISBN 978-0-425-21724-5</a>.</cite><span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.btitle=chapter+44&rft.atitle=The+Harlequin&rft.aulast=%5B%5BLaurell+K.+Hamilton%5D%5D&rft.au=%5B%5BLaurell+K.+Hamilton%5D%5D&rft.date=June+2007&rft.pages=pp.%26nbsp%3Bpp.+391-392&rft.edition=1st&rft.pub=Berkley+Books&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Sexuality"><span style="display: none;"> </span></span></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>There is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woody_Harrelson" class="extiw" title="w:Woody Harrelson">Woody Harrelson</a>, <i>Play it to the Bone</i></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Social and cultural factors very broadly channel and limit sexual variation in human populations. Sexual laws, codes, and roles <i>do</i> restrict the range and intensity of sexual practices, as far as we can judge from the cross-cultural literature (Herdt and Stoller 1990). Kinsey lent his support to this view; Ford and Beach (1950) documented it in surveys; and <a href="/wiki/Margaret_Mead" title="Margaret Mead">Margaret Mead</a> (1961) did so in her <a href="/wiki/Ethnography" title="Ethnography">ethnographic</a> studies. But biosocial, genetic, and hormonal predispositions also broadly limit and channel.</b> Each culture's theory of the combination of these social and biological contraints we could call its theory of human sexual nature. Yet none of these broad principles, nor the local theory of human sexual nature, entirely explains or predicts a particular person's sexual desires or behaviors. A sexual behavior, that is, does not necessarily indicate an erotic orientation, preference, or desire. The homosexual is not the same as the homoerotic; whether in our society or one very exotic, I will claim, we can distinguish the homosexual from the homoerotic, as <a href="/wiki/Oscar_Wilde" title="Oscar Wilde">Oscar Wilde</a>'s case first hinted. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Gilbert_Herdt" title="Gilbert Herdt">Gilbert Herdt</a>, "Bisexuality and the Causes of Homosexuality: The Case of the Sambia"</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Nobody knows what "causes" homosexuality any more than they know what "causes" heterosexuality. (Of course, there is far less interest in what causes the latter.) Overtly, the old <a href="/wiki/Psychoanalysis" title="Psychoanalysis">psychoanalytic</a> bugaboos are dead; there is no evidence, according to the Kinsey Institute, that male homosexuality is caused by dominant mothers and/or weak fathers, or that female homosexuality is caused by girls' having exclusively male role models. Furthermore, children who are raised by <a href="/wiki/Gay_men" title="Gay men">gay</a> and <a href="/wiki/Lesbian" title="Lesbian">lesbian</a> couples are no more likely to be homosexual than children of heterosexual couples. Nor do people become adult homosexuals because they were seduced by older people or went to same-sex boarding schools... <br /> Though the causes of sexual orientation are unknown and the definitions fluid, the likelihood of converting a homosexual to a heterosexual orientation, or vice versa, is very slight. Some homosexual men and women voluntarily come for therapy to change from same-sex to opposite-sex partners, but it is not clear whether the limited "success" rate refers to a change in their feelings and the pattern of their desire, or just in their ability to consciously restrict their sexual contact to members of the opposite sex. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Hersch" class="extiw" title="w:Patricia Hersch">Patricia Hersch</a>, <i>The Family Therapy Networker</i> (Jan/Feb 1991)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>No person may enjoy outstanding success without good <a href="/wiki/Health" title="Health">health</a>. Many of the causes of ill health are subject to mastery and control. These, in the main are: a. <a href="/wiki/Overeating" title="Overeating">Overeating</a> of foods not conducive to health. b. <a href="/wiki/Pessimism" title="Pessimism">Wrong habits</a> of thought... c. Wrong use of, and <a href="/wiki/Excess" title="Excess">over indulgence</a> in <a href="/wiki/Human_sexual_activity" title="Human sexual activity">sex</a>. d. Lack of proper <a href="/wiki/Exercise" title="Exercise">physical exercise</a> e. An inadequate supply of fresh air, due to improper <a href="/wiki/Breathing" title="Breathing">breathing</a>.... The most damaging forms of <a href="/wiki/Intemperance" title="Intemperance">intemperance</a> are connected with eating, strong drink, and sexual activities. Overindulgence in any of these is fatal to success... <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Napoleon_Hill" title="Napoleon Hill">Napoleon Hill</a>, <i>Think and Grow Rich</i> (1938)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Professors rarely speak of the place of eros or the erotic in our classrooms. Trained in the philosophical context of Western <a href="/wiki/Metaphysics" title="Metaphysics">metaphysical</a> <a href="/wiki/Dualism" title="Dualism">dualism</a>, many of us have accepted the notion that there is a split between the <a href="/wiki/Body" title="Body">body</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Mind" title="Mind">mind</a>. Believing this, individuals enter the classroom to teach as though only the mind is present, and not the body. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bell_Hooks" class="mw-redirect" title="Bell Hooks">Bell Hooks</a>, <i>Teaching to Transgress</i></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The very general occurrence of the homosexual in <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Greece" title="Ancient Greece">ancient Greece</a>, and its wide occurrence today in some cultures in which such activity is not taboo suggests that the capacity of an individual to respond erotically to any sort of stimulus, whether it is provided by another person of the same or opposite sex, is basic in the species. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alfred_Kinsey" title="Alfred Kinsey">Alfred Kinsey</a>, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_Behaviour_in_the_Human_Male" class="extiw" title="w:Sexual Behaviour in the Human Male">Sexual Behaviour in the Human Male</a></i> (1948)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The <a href="/wiki/History_of_medicine" title="History of medicine">history of medicine</a> proves that in so far as man seeks to know himself and face <a href="/wiki/Human_nature" title="Human nature">his whole nature</a>, he has become free from bewildered <a href="/wiki/Fear" title="Fear">fear</a>, despondent <a href="/wiki/Shame" title="Shame">shame</a>, or arrant <a href="/wiki/Hypocrisy" title="Hypocrisy">hypocrisy</a>. <b>As long as sex is dealt with in the current confusion of <a href="/wiki/Ignorance" title="Ignorance">ignorance</a> and sophistication, <a href="/wiki/Denial" title="Denial">denial</a> and <a href="/wiki/Indulgence" title="Indulgence">indulgence</a>, <a href="/wiki/Suppression" title="Suppression">suppression</a> and stimulation, <a href="/wiki/Punishment" title="Punishment">punishment</a> and <a href="/wiki/Exploitation" title="Exploitation">exploitation</a>, <a href="/wiki/Secrecy" title="Secrecy">secrecy</a> and display, it will be associated with a <a href="/wiki/Duplicity" class="mw-redirect" title="Duplicity">duplicity</a> and indecency that lead neither to intellectual <a href="/wiki/Honesty" title="Honesty">honesty</a> nor human dignity.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alfred_Kinsey" title="Alfred Kinsey">Alfred Kinsey</a>, in <i>Sexual Behaviour in the Human Male</i> (1948)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Males do not represent two discrete populations, heterosexual and homosexual. The world is not to be divided into sheeps and goats. Not all things are <a href="/wiki/Black" title="Black">black</a> nor all things <a href="/wiki/White" class="mw-disambig" title="White">white</a>. It is a fundamental of taxonomy that nature rarely deals with discrete categories. Only the human mind invents categories and tries to force facts into separated pigeon-holes. The living world is a continuum in each and every one of its aspects. The sooner we learn this concerning human sexual behavior, the sooner we shall reach a sound understanding of the realities of sex. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alfred_Kinsey" title="Alfred Kinsey">Alfred Kinsey</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Sexual_Behaviour_in_the_Human_Male" class="mw-redirect" title="Sexual Behaviour in the Human Male">Sexual Behaviour in the Human Male</a></i> (1948)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Women find it easier to talk about eroticism, sensuality and relationships than men. I think men tend to cover up their feelings by using locker room macho talk. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheryl_Ladd" class="extiw" title="w:Cheryl Ladd">Cheryl Ladd</a>, <i>Cheryl Ladd satisfied with 'Crossings'</i>, <i>Reading Eagle</i>, February 23, 1986</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Sex isn't disgusting unless you make it disgusting! <ul><li>Bob Leander, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris,_je_t%27aime" class="extiw" title="w:Paris, je t'aime">Paris, je t'aime</a></i></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Sex" class="mw-redirect" title="Sex">Sex</a> is not harmful to <a href="/wiki/Children" title="Children">children</a>. It is a vehicle to self-knowledge, love, healing, creativity, adventure, and intense feelings of aliveness. There are many ways even the smallest children can partake of it. Our moral obligation to the next generation is to make a world in which every child can partake safely, a world in which the needs and desires of every child—for accomplishment, connection, meaning, and pleasure—can be marvelously fulfilled. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_Levine" class="extiw" title="w:Judith Levine">Judith Levine</a>, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmful_to_Minors" class="extiw" title="w:Harmful to Minors">Harmful to Minors: The Perils of Protecting Children from Sex</a></i> (2002), Judith Levine, forward by <a href="/wiki/Joycelyn_Elders" title="Joycelyn Elders">Joycelyn Elders</a>, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0816640068" title="Special:BookSources/0816640068">ISBN 0816640068</a> Epilogue, p. 225. <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://www.ipce.info/library_3/pdf/harmfultominors.pdf">[4]</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Sexual play was a regular practice among the children from the earliest period. The adult attitude toward it, if not one of active encouragement, was at least that of mild amusement. [...] Regular intercourse began before puberty with patterns of group sexual play, two or three girls in the gang serving a number of boys in rapid succession with the other boys looking on. Occasionally there were individual affairs. Sexual techniques were learned through imitation of the adults. [...] Homosexuality was present in the form of mutual masturbation, but I have no data as to its frequency. [...] The gap between adults and children was such that it was impossible for an adult to win the child’s confidence. Relations between them were amiable but entirely dissociated. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Linton" class="extiw" title="w:Ralph Linton">Ralph Linton</a> [Linton, Ralph. Marquesan Culture (July 1925), American Anthropologist Volume 27. Issue 3 (p. 474-478)]</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>It is the night-black <a href="/wiki/Massachusetts" class="mw-redirect" title="Massachusetts">Massachusetts</a> legendry which packs the really macabre 'kick', Here is the material for a really profound study in group neuroticism; for certainly, no one can deny the existence of a profoundly morbid streak in the <a href="/wiki/Puritanism" title="Puritanism">Puritan</a> imagination....The very pre-ponderance of passionately pious men in the <a href="/wiki/Colony" title="Colony">colony</a> was virtually an assurance of unnatural <a href="/wiki/Crime" title="Crime">crime</a>; insomuch as <a href="/wiki/Psychology" title="Psychology">psychology</a> now proves the religious instinct to be a form of transmuted eroticism precisely parallel to the transmutations in other directions which respectively produce such things as <a href="/wiki/Sadism_and_masochism" class="mw-redirect" title="Sadism and masochism">sadism</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hallucination" title="Hallucination">hallucination</a>, <a href="/wiki/Melancholy" title="Melancholy">melancholia</a>, and other mental morbidities. Bunch together a group of people deliberately chosen for strong religious feelings, and you have a practical guarantee of dark morbidities expressed in crime, perversion, and <a href="/wiki/Insanity" title="Insanity">insanity</a>. This was aggravated, of course, by the Puritan policy of rigorously suppressing all the natural outlets of excuberant feeling--music, laughter, colour, pageantry, and so on. To observe <a href="/wiki/Christmas" title="Christmas">Christmas Day</a> was once a prison offence.... <ul><li><a href="/wiki/H.P._Lovecraft" class="mw-redirect" title="H.P. Lovecraft">H.P. Lovecraft</a>, letter to Robert E. Howard, (October 4, 1930), <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=rVERL_j9UfcC&printsec=frontcover&dq=isbn:0809515679&hl=en&sa=X&ei=-beOVeGqHsi_ggT1vqKgCw&ved=0CB4Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=insanity&f=true">[5]</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I just think it's double standards the whole time. On the one hand people say, 'Oh, women have <a href="/wiki/Women%27s_rights" title="Women's rights">equal rights</a> now, women can be as powerful as men and do the same jobs as men', but we're still not allowed to talk about sex, 'cos that's unladylike. It's like that old thing, if a man has slept with loads and loads of women, he's a stud. But if a woman has slept with loads of boys, she's a slag. Well, why? Why? What makes a man a stud 'cos he's pulled loads of women? And what makes me a slag 'cos I've slept with more than 10 men? It's ridiculous! <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jodie_Marsh" title="Jodie Marsh">Jodie Marsh</a> 'The Guardian<i>, 25 January 2006 <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2006/jan/25/broadcasting.bigbrother">[6]</a></i></li></ul></li></ul> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Girl_dancing_Holi_feest_2008.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1e/Girl_dancing_Holi_feest_2008.jpg/220px-Girl_dancing_Holi_feest_2008.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="315" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1e/Girl_dancing_Holi_feest_2008.jpg/330px-Girl_dancing_Holi_feest_2008.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1e/Girl_dancing_Holi_feest_2008.jpg/440px-Girl_dancing_Holi_feest_2008.jpg 2x" data-file-width="658" data-file-height="942" /></a><figcaption>Sexually progressive cultures gave us <a href="/wiki/Mathematics" title="Mathematics">mathematics</a>, <a href="/wiki/Literature" title="Literature">literature</a>, <a href="/wiki/Philosophy" title="Philosophy">philosophy</a>, <a href="/wiki/Civilization" title="Civilization">civilization</a> and the rest, while sexually restrictive cultures gave us the <a href="/wiki/Dark_Ages" title="Dark Ages">Dark Ages</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Holocaust" class="mw-redirect" title="Holocaust">Holocaust</a>. Not that I’m trying to load my <a href="/wiki/Argument" title="Argument">argument</a>, of course. ~ <a href="/wiki/Alan_Moore" title="Alan Moore">Alan Moore</a></figcaption></figure> <ul><li>Sexually progressive cultures gave us <a href="/wiki/Mathematics" title="Mathematics">mathematics</a>, <a href="/wiki/Literature" title="Literature">literature</a>, <a href="/wiki/Philosophy" title="Philosophy">philosophy</a>, <a href="/wiki/Civilization" title="Civilization">civilization</a> and the rest, while sexually restrictive cultures gave us the <a href="/wiki/Dark_Ages" title="Dark Ages">Dark Ages</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Holocaust" class="mw-redirect" title="Holocaust">Holocaust</a>. Not that I’m trying to load my <a href="/wiki/Argument" title="Argument">argument</a>, of course. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alan_Moore" title="Alan Moore">Alan Moore</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.arthurmag.com/magpie/?p=1685">"BOG VENUS VERSUS NAZI COCK-RING: Some Thoughts Concerning Pornography" in <i>Arthur</i> magazine, Vol. 1, No. 25 (November 2006)</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The degree and kind of a man's sexuality reach up into the ultimate pinnacle of his spirit. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Friedrich_Nietzsche" title="Friedrich Nietzsche">Friedrich Nietzsche</a>, <a href="/wiki/Beyond_Good_and_Evil" title="Beyond Good and Evil">Beyond Good and Evil</a>, Epigram 75, translated by <a href="/wiki/Walter_Kaufmann" class="mw-redirect" title="Walter Kaufmann">Walter Kaufmann</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Writers" class="mw-redirect" title="Writers">Writers</a> may note that some pictures have succeeded without sex appeal. First of all, the pictures of <a href="/wiki/Charlie_Chaplin" title="Charlie Chaplin">Charlie Chaplin</a>. Then those of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Fairbanks" class="extiw" title="w:Douglas Fairbanks">Douglas Fairbanks</a> and <a href="/wiki/Harold_Lloyd" title="Harold Lloyd">Harold Lloyd</a>. Then <a href="/wiki/Buster_Keaton" title="Buster Keaton">Buster Keaton</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Langdon" class="extiw" title="w:Harry Langdon">Harry Langdon</a>. Then come occasional pictures, with lesser stars, such as <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Covered_Wagon" class="extiw" title="w:The Covered Wagon">The Covered Wagon</a></i>, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_Parade" class="extiw" title="w:The Big Parade">The Big Parade</a></i>, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Four_Horsemen_of_the_Apocalypse_(film)" class="extiw" title="w:The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (film)">The Four Horsemen</a></i>, and so on. <br /> Have all of these anything in common? Only one feature stands out unmistakably. <i>In every one of them, sex interest is completely submerged. It is subordinated to character drawing, or to complications, or to sheer spectacle</i>. Whenever you find a <a href="/wiki/Romance" title="Romance">romance</a> here, it is thin and tacked onto something far bigger or far funnier. And you find no trace of red hot sex appeal, such as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pola_Negri" class="extiw" title="w:Pola Negri">Pola Negri</a> injected into the screen. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_B._Pitkin" class="extiw" title="w:Walter B. Pitkin">Walter B. Pitkin</a> and <a href="/wiki/William_Moulton_Marston" title="William Moulton Marston">William M. Marston</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015003987503">“The Art of Sound Pictures”</a> D. Appleton and Company, New York London (1930), CHAPTER II WHAT PEOPLE WANT, p. 21.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Here we see reflected the curious conglomerate of <a href="/wiki/Humanity" title="Humanity">humanity</a> which makes up the world's <a href="/wiki/Film" title="Film">picture</a> <a href="/wiki/Audience" title="Audience">audience</a>. Most of its members are <a href="/wiki/Young" class="mw-redirect" title="Young">young</a> people, many of them <a href="/wiki/Children" title="Children">children</a> under twelve years of age. The latter do not respond violently to sex appeal. And the <a href="/wiki/Adolescents" class="mw-redirect" title="Adolescents">adolescents</a> respond unpleasantly to it, on the whole; they are just growing into sex life, and it sets up "growing pains." Frank, suggestive pictures embarrass some boys and girls between the years of twelve and eighteen. This is partly a by-product of <a href="/wiki/Puritanism" title="Puritanism">Puritanism</a>, at a time when profound psychic changes are taking place. <br /> Now enters still another factor to block the normal interest in sex appeal stories. The motion picture house is a <a href="/wiki/Family" title="Family">family</a> gathering place. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_B._Pitkin" class="extiw" title="w:Walter B. Pitkin">Walter B. Pitkin</a> and <a href="/wiki/William_Moulton_Marston" title="William Moulton Marston">William M. Marston</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015003987503">“The Art of Sound Pictures”</a> D. Appleton and Company, New York London (1930), CHAPTER II WHAT PEOPLE WANT, p. 22.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Psychic health depends on orgastic potency, i.e., upon the degree to which one can surrender to and experience the climax of excitation in the natural sexual act. It is founded upon the healthy character attitude of the individual's capacity for love. <b><a href="/wiki/Mental_illness" class="mw-redirect" title="Mental illness">Psychic illnesses</a> are the result of a disturbance of the natural capacity for <a href="/wiki/Love" title="Love">love</a>.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wilhelm_Reich" title="Wilhelm Reich">Wilhelm Reich</a>, <i>The Function of the Orgasm</i> (1927), General Survey.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Only the liberation of the natural capacity for love in human beings can master their sadistic destructiveness.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wilhelm_Reich" title="Wilhelm Reich">Wilhelm Reich</a>, <i>The Function of the Orgasm</i> (1927), Ch. V : The Development of the Character-Analytic Technique.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Freud" class="mw-redirect" title="Freud">Sigmund Freud</a>’s second great discovery was that even the small child develops a lively sexuality, which has nothing to do with procreation; that, in other words, sexuality and procreation, and sexual and genital, are not the same. The analytic dissection of psychic processes further proved that sexuality, or rather its energy, the libido, which is of the body, is the prime motor of psychic life. Hence, the biologic presuppositions and social conditions of life overlap in the mind. <br /> The third great discovery was that childhood sexuality, of which what is most crucial in the child-parent relationship (‘the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oedipus_complex" class="extiw" title="w:Oedipus complex">Oedipus complex</a>’) is a part, is usually repressed out of fear of punishment for sexual acts and thoughts (basically a ‘fear of castration’); the child’s sexual activity is blocked and extinguished from memory. Thus, while repression of childhood sexuality withdraws it from the influence of <a href="/wiki/Consciousness" title="Consciousness">consciousness</a>, it does not weaken its force. On the contrary, the repression intensifies it and enables it to manifest itself in various pathological disturbances of the mind. As there is hardly an exception to this rule among ‘civilized man’, Freud could say that he had all of humanity as his patient. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wilhelm_Reich" title="Wilhelm Reich">Wilhelm Reich</a>, <i>The Mass Psychology of Fascism</i>, (1933), p. 26.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>It was not until relatively late, with the establishment of an authoritarian patriarchy and the beginning of the division of the classes, that suppression of sexuality begins to make its appearance. It is at this stage that sexual interests in general begin to enter the service of a minority’s interest in material profit; in the patriarchal marriage and family this state of affairs assumes a solid organizational form. With the restriction and suppression of sexuality, the nature of human feeling changes; a sex-negating religion comes into being and gradually develops its own sex-political organization, the church with all its predecessors, the aim of which is nothing other than the eradication of man’s sexual desires and consequently of what little happiness there is on earth. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wilhelm_Reich" title="Wilhelm Reich">Wilhelm Reich</a>, <i>The Mass Psychology of Fascism</i>, (1933), p. 29.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The moral inhibition of the child’s natural sexuality, the last stage of which is the severe impairment of the child’s genital sexuality, makes the child afraid, shy, fearful of <a href="/wiki/Authority" title="Authority">authority</a>, <a href="/wiki/Obedience" title="Obedience">obedient</a>, ‘good’, and ‘docile’ in the authoritarian sense of the words. It has a crippling effect on man’s rebellious forces because every vital life-impulse is now burdened with severe fear; and since sex is a forbidden subject, thought in general and man’s critical faculty also become inhibited. In short, morality’s aim is to produce acquiescent subjects who, despite distress and humiliation, are adjusted to the <a href="/wiki/Authoritarianism" title="Authoritarianism">authoritarian</a> order. Thus, the family is the authoritarian state in miniature, to which the child must learn to adapt himself as a preparation for the general social adjustment required of him later. Man’s authoritarian structure - this must be clearly established - is basically produced by the embedding of sexual inhibitions and fear in the living substance of sexual impulses. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wilhelm_Reich" title="Wilhelm Reich">Wilhelm Reich</a>, <i>The Mass Psychology of Fascism</i>, (1933), p. 30.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>When sexuality is prevented from attaining natural gratification, owing to the process of sexual repression, what happens is that it seeks various kinds of substitute gratifications. Thus, for instance, natural aggression is distorted into brutal sadism, which constitutes an essential part of the mass-psychological basis of those imperialistic wars that are instigated by a few. To give another instance: From the point of view of mass psychology, the effect of <a href="/wiki/Military" title="Military">militarism</a> is based essentially on a libidinous mechanism. The sexual effect of a uniform, the erotically provocative effect of rhythmically executed goose-stepping, the exhibitionistic nature of militaristic procedures, have been more practically comprehended by a salesgirl or an average secretary than by our most erudite politicians. On the other hand it is political reaction that consciously exploits these sexual interests. It not only designs flashy uniforms for the men, it puts the recruiting into the hands of attractive women. In conclusion, let us but recall the recruiting posters of war-thirsty powers, which ran something as follows: ‘Travel to foreign countries — join the Royal Navy I’ and the foreign countries were portrayed by exotic women. And why are these posters effective? Because our youth has become sexually starved owing to sexual suppression. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wilhelm_Reich" title="Wilhelm Reich">Wilhelm Reich</a>, <i>The Mass Psychology of Fascism</i>, (1933), p. 31.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>At this point the obvious objection makes itself heard, namely, that the primitive who led a natural life in a matriarchal order also had mystical feelings. A very thorough proof is needed to show that there is a fundamental difference between the matriarchal man and the patriarchal man. Above all, this can be proven by the fact that religion’s attitude towards sexuality underwent a change in patriarchal society. Originally, it was a religion of sexuality; later it became an anti-sexual religion. The ‘mysticism’ of the primitives who were members of a sexually affirmative society is partially direct orgastic experience and partially animistic interpretation of natural processes. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wilhelm_Reich" title="Wilhelm Reich">Wilhelm Reich</a>, <i>The Mass Psychology of Fascism</i>, (1933), p. 138.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Clinical experience shows incontestably that religious sentiments result from inhibited sexuality that the source of mystical excitation is to be sought in inhibited sexual excitation. The inescapable conclusion of all this is that a clear sexual consciousness and a natural regulation of sexual life must foredoom every form of mysticism; that, in other words, natural sexuality is the arch enemy of mystical religion. By carrying on an anti-sexual fight wherever it can, making it the core of its dogmas and putting it in the foreground of its mass <a href="/wiki/Propaganda" title="Propaganda">propaganda</a>, the church only attests to the correctness of this interpretation. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wilhelm_Reich" title="Wilhelm Reich">Wilhelm Reich</a>, <i>The Mass Psychology of Fascism</i>, (1933), p. 178.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>It was first shown in connection with the suppression of the natural sexuality of children and adolescents that there are fundamental biologic functions of the human animal that have nothing to do with the economic distribution of the classes and that class boundaries overlap and cut across one another. The suppression of sexuality relates not only to all strata and classes of every patriarchal society; it is precisely in the ruling classes that this suppression is often most pronounced. Indeed, sex-economy was able to show that a large part of the sadism made use of by the <a href="/wiki/Ruling_class" title="Ruling class">ruling class</a> to suppress and exploit other <a href="/wiki/Classes" class="mw-redirect" title="Classes">classes</a> is to be ascribed chiefly to the sadism that stems from suppressed sexuality. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wilhelm_Reich" title="Wilhelm Reich">Wilhelm Reich</a>, <i>The Mass Psychology of Fascism</i>, (1933), ch. 10; originally published in <i>International Journal of Sex-Economy and Orgone-Research</i>, 2 (1943).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Well, there’s always this human instinct about that, even from a very, very young age. I agreed that we are born with a sort of innate sexuality. But by like age 11, girls were talking about what they had and hadn’t done. I hadn’t even kissed a boy yet, so it always made me feel insecure, like I was never gonna be good or ready or know what to do — I didn’t even have boobs. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Rihanna" title="Rihanna">Rihanna</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/12/t-magazine/rihanna-miranda-july-interview.html?_r=0"><i>A Very Revealing Conversation With Rihanna</i></a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Were kisses all the joys in bed, one woman would another wed. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Shakespeare" title="William Shakespeare">William Shakespeare</a>, "Sonnets to Sundry Notes of Music IV"</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Isn’t it desperately sad that, at a time when we face formidable problems – <a href="/wiki/Poverty" title="Poverty">poverty</a>, <a href="/wiki/HIV/AIDS" title="HIV/AIDS">HIV/AIDS</a>, <a href="/wiki/Conflict" title="Conflict">conflict</a> – that the <a href="/wiki/Anglicanism" title="Anglicanism">Anglican Communion</a> can invest so much energy on disagreements about human sexuality? A communion that used to boast that one of its distinctive characteristics was something called comprehensiveness, that our communion, the Anglican Church, included just about everybody. Even if you had the most weird theology you could come in, you were allowed. And now we, who used to be held up in admiration by many because of this inclusiveness, are now spending time working out how we can excommunicate one another. <a href="/wiki/God" title="God">God</a> looks on and God weeps. God weeps. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Desmond_Tutu" title="Desmond Tutu">Desmond Tutu</a>, "And God Smiles," sermon preached at All Saints Church, Pasadena, California (6 November 2005)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Molly Notkin often confides on the phone to Joelle van Dyne about the one tormented love of Nokin's life thus far, an erotically circumscribed G.W. Pabst scholar at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_University" class="extiw" title="w:New York University">New York University</a> tortured by the neurotic compulsion that there are only a finite number of erections possible in the world at any one time and that his tumescence means e.g. the detumescence of some perhaps more deserving or tortured <a href="/wiki/Third_World" title="Third World">Third World</a> sorghum farmer. . . <ul><li><a href="/wiki/David_Foster_Wallace" title="David Foster Wallace">David Foster Wallace</a>, "Infinite Jest"</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>There are two kinds of sex, classical and baroque. Classical sex is romantic, profound, serious, emotional, moral, mysterious, spontaneous, abandoned, focused on a particular person, and stereotypically feminine. Baroque sex is pop, playful, funny, experimental, conscious, deliberate, amoral, anonymous, focused on sensation for sensation's sake, and stereotypically masculine. The classical mentality taken to an extreme is sentimental and finally puritanical; the baroque mentality taken to an extreme is pornographic and finally obscene. Ideally, a sexual relation ought to create a satisfying tension between the two modes (a baroque idea, particularly if the tension is ironic) or else blend them so well that the distinction disappears (a classical aspiration). <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ellen_Willis" title="Ellen Willis">Ellen Willis</a>, "Classical and Baroque Sex in Everyday Life" (1979), <i>Beginning To See the Light: Pieces of a Decade</i> (1981)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>These apparently opposed perspectives meet on the common ground of sexual <a href="/wiki/Conservatism" title="Conservatism">conservatism</a>. The <a href="/wiki/Monogamy" title="Monogamy">monogamists</a> uphold the traditional wife's "official" values: emotional commitment is inseparable from a legal/moral obligation to permanence and fidelity; men are always trying to escape these duties; it's in our interest to make them shape up. The separatists tap into the underside of traditional <a href="/wiki/Femininity" title="Femininity">femininity</a> – the bitter, self-righteous fury that propels the indictment of men as lustful beasts ravaging their chaste victims. These are the two faces of feminine ideology in a <a href="/wiki/Patriarchy" title="Patriarchy">patriarchal</a> <a href="/wiki/Culture" title="Culture">culture</a>: they induce women to accept a spurious moral superiority as a substitute for sexual pleasure, and curbs on men's sexual freedom as a substitute for real power. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ellen_Willis" title="Ellen Willis">Ellen Willis</a>, "Lust Horizons: Is the Woman's Movement Pro-Sex?" (1981), <i>No More Nice Girls: Countercultural Essays</i> (1992)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>In addition to his bio-physical heresies, Dr. Reich vastly offended many <a href="/wiki/People" class="mw-redirect" title="People">people</a> by his <a href="/wiki/Sociological" class="mw-redirect" title="Sociological">sociological</a> theory, which holds that <a href="/wiki/Fascism" title="Fascism">fascism</a> is just an exaggerated form of the basic structure of sex-negative societies and has existed under other <a href="/wiki/Names" title="Names">names</a> in every <a href="/wiki/Civilization" title="Civilization">civilization</a> based on sexual repression. In this theory, the character and muscular armor of the average citizen — a submissive and <a href="/wiki/Frightened" class="mw-redirect" title="Frightened">frightened</a> <a href="/wiki/Attitude" title="Attitude">attitude</a> anchored in body reflexes — causes the average person to want a <a href="/wiki/Strong" class="mw-redirect" title="Strong">strong</a> <a href="/wiki/Authority" title="Authority">authority</a> figure above them. <b><a href="/wiki/Tyranny" title="Tyranny">Tyranny</a>, in this model, is not created by tyrants alone but by neurotic masses who <i>want</i> tyrants. </b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Anton_Wilson" title="Robert Anton Wilson">Robert Anton Wilson</a>, in <i>Everything Is Under Control : Conspiracies, Cults, and Cover-Ups</i> (1998), p. 361; some of Wilson's account of the suppression of Reich's ideas and work are technically exaggerative: though many of Reich's books mentioning his concepts of orgone energy and the "orgone accumulators" of his laboratory were destroyed the destruction of his equipment and books was not actually total.</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sexuality&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Sex" class="mw-redirect" title="Sex">Sex</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gender" title="Gender">Gender</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bisexuality" title="Bisexuality">Bisexuality</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Heterosexuality" title="Heterosexuality">Heterosexuality</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Homosexuality" title="Homosexuality">Homosexuality</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lesbian" title="Lesbian">Lesbian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Polyamory" title="Polyamory">Polyamory</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pedophilia" title="Pedophilia">Pedophilia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rape" title="Rape">Rape</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Celibacy" title="Celibacy">Celibacy</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sexuality&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="noprint" style="clear: right; 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