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    He helped debase generations of women, I suppose I have that to thank him for. Like me supporting the Free the Nipple cause. I think women should have the equality to show me their tits. Sexual freedom is great too, I want women to have the freedom to have sex with me. Because of course I do, I'm a man.

    u/jet199 posted this interesting article titled "I regret being a Slut" that puts forth the proposition that maybe sexual freedom isn't so great for women after all.

    ...create a great day...

    I can only craft words, not days, but if I could I'd make Boobsday, and every Boobsday would be fantastic.

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      [–]Notspendingmylife 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

      This is typicalnpseudo-intellectualist, smug and reality-denying babble. Anyone completely dismissing the natural human wariness towards sexual pleasure as simply religious panic is someone who has never in their lifes experienced the real nature of being a man and the fruits of celibacy.

      Religions back then were right: Sexual pleasure and indulgence comes with a hefty price. These religious 'preconceptions' that paint the sin of sex as almost leading you to doom, firstly stem from the correct acknowledgement of the fact that sex/masturbation IS a consequental action with mostly a negative return and, secondly, deals with this truth by expressing the wish to live up to this truth fully and completely. The ultimate way of life, celibacy and living in accordance to god, consequently then becomes the highest value in the value hierarchy of religion. This is not just an anxious irrationality created by repressed people in the desert.

      You as a man are designed to keep your semen and transmuting your extremely potent sexual energy for higher purposes in the physical, mental and spiritual realm. The ultimate way of life, to truth, to power and to self realisation IS celibacy, just like it is proposed in all religions and most high societies in one way or another. Men today have been kept in the dark about the truth about being man and the responsibilities they have aswell as the power that they have in themselves. Wilhelm Reich is completely oblivious to the nature of sex and sees it as just an impulse that is there to be satisfied (like some kind of monkey would when he jerks it on his palmtree) that leads to no consequences. This is not even simplyifing reality, this is complete denial of reality. I think the greeks had a word for this kind philosophy.

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      This shitty book got into your heads too much.

      [–][deleted] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

      I posted the quote not for inspiration, but for ridicule.

      Check this garbage out:

      Freud’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.

      He sounds like a modern liberal.

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      Ok. I switched my upvote of it.

      Freud seemingly just couldn't "explain" his own oedipal behavioral patterns.

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        Reading it felt to me like pointing a shotgun with its business end right to my forehead and pulling the trigger. But for all these people constantly tickling my nuts, i obviously am able to torture myself a bit.

        I'm on the lookout for some good literature. But there is ambivalence right now in my head about these, which only time can make "right", so to say.

        [–]jet199 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

        This guy is confusing libido with sexuality.

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        I'm bursting at the seems with orgone energy

        [–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

        Are doing the book club too? The book is fucking awful, everyone should read this hot mess. Like telling someone to try something that tastes bad. Here's a gem:

        We have to be able to explain how it was possible for mysticism to have triumphed over scientific sociology

        Scientific sociology! Hah, this dude had way too much faith in the soft "sciences" that knew Marxism was the right system everyone needed, but was too stupid to want.

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        Yeah I wanna do book club, and tried to read it, but it sucks. Also neither Reich or this work are particularly historically important, so I have no reason to suffer through it. Even Marx and his work was at least historically important

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        Hopefully next book is a better read. Wikipedia says "his writing influenced generations of intellectuals; he coined the phrase "the sexual revolution" and according to one historian acted as its midwife." He helped get the ladies to slut out.

        [–]jet199 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

        Seeing as Marx regularly used prostitutes I'm sure he knew all about sex, it's economy and oppression based on that.

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        Any sexologists here?