I personally would like to see the society in which I
live straightforwardly endeavor to help persons find
both meaning and pleasure in all areas of life, including
sexual. I have not found the society in which I
live to be that way.
Sigmund Freud had something to say about this, the net of
which is that, just like harnessing nuclear energy in
power plants can fuel cities instead of
blowing them up, much more so does rechanneling of erotic energy
fuel "our" civilization. Edward Stone, in his study of
family life in England, quoted someone as saying:
The British Empire was founded
not in a fit of absence of mind,
but of absence of women.
As for Freud:
http://www.users.cloud9.net/~bradmcc/civil.html
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The human person is "unstinctually underdetermined", and
tehrefore cannot simply on the basis of genetic
inheritance find sexual fulfillment (or just about
anything else). Let me be more specific here,
and bind the variable "human person" to the
instance: "me".
"It takes a village" -- to borrow
a phrase from H. Clinton.... (And Prof. Al Lingis
claims there was at least one advanced civilization which
did not depend on sexual repression to power it:
ca. 11th Century India/Cambodia (see his chapter:
"Kharajuro" in _Excesses_, SUNY Press).
Never again.
\brad mccormick
--
Let your light so shine before men,
that they may see your good works.... (Matt 5:16)
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21)
<![%THINK;[SGML+APL]]> Brad McCormick, Ed.D. / [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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