Science Shows What Sexual Repression Actually Looks
Like - by Marty Klein, PhD – 11/8/10
…As reported in the Journal of Economic Perspectives,
* The rates at which people buy
pornography are not wildly different from state to state;
* States where people
vote for conservative candidates buy more porn than states in which people vote
for progressive candidates.
…According to credit card receipts from a
national provider of adult entertainment, eight of the top ten
pornography-consuming states went Republican in the 2008 election. And the
trend goes beyond voting. For example, states where a majority of residents
agreed with the statement "I have old-fashioned values about family and marriage" bought more
subscriptions per thousand people than states where a majority disagreed. The
same difference emerged for the statement "AIDS might be God's punishment for
immoral sexual behavior."
And of course the state with the highest per
capita purchase of online pornography is...Utah…
Read more:
Red Light States: Who Buys Online
Adult Entertainment? – by Benjamin Edelman – 2009
…this
paper focuses on the consumption side of adult online entertainment,
and
in particular on subscriber demographics and consumption patterns of those who
subscribe to such websites. On the surface, this business would seem to face a
number of obstacles. Regulatory and legal barriers have already been mentioned.
In addition, those charging for access to adult entertainment face competition
from similar content available without a fee. In the context of adult entertainment,
free access offers consumers an extra benefit: online payments tend to create
records documenting the fact of a customer’s purchase; consumers of free content
may feel more confident that their usage will remain confidential. More broadly,
measured levels of religiosity in American are high—for example, 68 percent of
Americans state that the Bible is the actual word of God and is to be taken
literally,
according to the National Election Survey. At the same time, social critics like
Levy (2005) and Paul (2005) often argue that the rise of Internet pornography is
contributing to a coarsening of American culture. Do consumption patterns of online
adult entertainment reveal two separate Americas? Or is the consumption of online
adult entertainment widespread, regardless of legal barriers, potential for embarrassment,
and even religious conviction?
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Essential Secrets of Psychotherapy: The Healing
Power of Clinical Wisdom (Part One) - by Stephen A.
Diamond, Ph.D. - January 6, 2012
…What we don't know can hurt us. The "unconscious," as Sigmund Freud
professed, is the "unknown" or "not known." That portion of
subjective experience, which is obscured, invisible to consciousness, at least
"at the moment." It consists largely of the parts of ourselves
we deny, dissociate, despise, denigrate, dread and generally repress. What we repress comes back to
haunt us with a vengeance. Philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche spoke of this
phenomenon as "the return of the repressed."
Denial or dissociation are repressive defense mechanisms, and serve some
necessary function in terms of preserving mental health. But when some
significant aspect of ourselves is chronically denied or dissociated (i.e.,
repressed and made unconscious), the proverbial chickens eventually come home
to roost. If, for instance, someone always denies their anger,
these feelings will some day resurface tenfold, especially under stress, though the reason
for and intensity of their rage
may be unclear and inappropriate to the current circumstances…
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Gay 1990s - Pope John Paul II’s group of THEOLOGIANS and SCIENTISTS studying homosexuality improving understanding and acceptance - ended 2005 by Benedict XVI
Do I reject my gay brother? Bishop Gumbleton - Homophobia - "Always Our Children" PBS 1999
Photo: Cain Slaying Abel, Jacopo Palma c1590
Ratzinger/Benedict XVI - head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith continually prevented evolution in church teaching toward acceptance of homosexual conduct - 1999
Gay Catholic Priest – Fr. Marty Kurylowicz - Charged by the Vatican for “Coming Out” March 1997 - For the Protection of Children – 15 years later & President Obama’s letter of appreciation - 2012
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Naturam expellas furca, tamen usque recurret.
(Though you drive Nature out with a pitchfork, she will still find her way back.)
Homosexuals and the Third Reich by James Steakley - 1974
...Despite, and perhaps because of, their relentless emphasis upon strength, purity, cleanliness and masculinity, the all-male Nazi groups surely contained a strong element of deeply repressed homoeroticism. The degree of repression was evidenced by the Nazi reaction to those who were openly gay. In the Bible, the scapegoat was the sacrificial animal on whose head the inchoate guilt of the entire community was placed. Homosexuals served precisely this function in the Third Reich.
The ideological rationale for the mass murder of homosexuals during the Third Reich was quite another matter. According to the doctrine of Social Darwinism, only the fittest are meant to survive, and the law of the jungle is the final arbiter of human history. If the Germans were destined to become the master race by virtue of their inherent biological superiority, the breeding stock could only be improved by the removal of degenerates.
Retarded, deformed and homosexual individuals could be eliminated with the dispassionate conscientiousness of a gardener pulling weeds. (Indeed, it is the very vehemence and passion with which homosexuals were persecuted that compels us to look beyond the pseudo-scientific rationale for a deeper, psychological dynamic.) http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/pwh/steakley-nazis.asp
The Enemy Within: Homosexuality in the Third Reich, 1933-1945 by Eliot H. Boden - 2011
...The eradication of same-sex behavior was an essential component of Nazi efforts to achieve the racial purification of Germany, defined by historian Rüdiger Lautman as “an attempt to keep the Fatherland free from taint.”Repression of homosexuality was necessary to protect a “fit and healthy social organism, the racial community, a Volksgemeinschaft,” or Volk – the pinnacle of Nazi social organization.The role of the racially-pure Volk was to uphold German traditions and disseminate Nazi ideals at the most basic level of German society, the family. In the words of Nazi propagandist Ludwig Leonhardt, the German family “embraces everything that existed spiritually and psychically as a living patrimony” and must be passed on from parents to children in order to “push our heritage ever forward, so that a German Volk may emerge out of an ever- repeated interlacing of families.”Nazi doctrine envisioned a strictly hierarchical society with the nuclear family at its core. Established gender roles and a strict division of labor between the sexes within the family reinforced patriarchal authority and engendered loyalty to the Führer and the state...
Nazi ideology, core principles of the Nazi movement in fact aroused homoerotic tendencies. Ironically, many homosexual men were initially attracted to Nazism, which emphasized virility, strength, and comradeship to forge a strong national polity. The excessive masculinity of the Third Reich was based on the philosophical concept of the Mannerbünd, a male-dominated elite united by devotion to a shared goal. Under the Nazi regime, the patriarchal hierarchy established by the Mannerbünd was mirrored throughout German society – in the family, in the workplace, at school, and especially in the military. The Wehrmacht specifically recognized the insidious allure of male bonding, and adopted measures to punish incidents of sexual contact between soldiers. Official army directives emphasized that “the danger of homosexual activity is especially acute when healthy, youthful, and virile men live together in close physical and emotional comradeship, and have no opportunity to have sexual relations with women.”Isolated from women by the realities of war, young soldiers often vented their pent-up sexual energies on each other. As Geoffrey J. Giles notes, “Nonsexual snuggling seems to have been unexceptional” in the Schutzstaffel (SS), and most soldiers did not view further sexual exploration, such as groping or fondling, as “especially reprehensible or anything more than mildly indecent.”Even in situations in which heterosexual outlets for sexual desire were available, Nazi rhetoric exacerbated homosexual tendencies. Robert G. Waite notes that Nazi dogma, by “denigrating females, encouraged the maturing adolescent to focus on the beauty of male personality and body.”Misogyny thus reinforced homoeroticism in the Wehrmacht. While many German soldiers did not see their sexual predilections and political beliefs as fundamentally incongruous, the state was nevertheless incapable of accepting their abnormality.Homosexuals in the Third Reich were frequently disparaged as maladjusted deviants, but there was not a scientific consensus on the origins of their pathology to justify these claims...
Cardinal Ratzinger 1981-2005 and Benedict XVI 2005-2013
How Benedict XVI – silenced many like Archbishop Hunthausen - as head of doctrinal congregation – Conflict in the Catholic Hierarchy: by Timothy Peter Schilling - 4/3/13
Ratzinger/Benedict XVI - Gay Obsession
Gay Marriage - Benedict XVI
Naturam expellas furca, tamen usque recurret.
(Though you drive Nature out with a pitchfork, she will still find her way back.)
Vatican gay sex scandals
Thoughts on the Vatican's 'gay lobby' - 2/22/13
Former Dominican Friar On Vatican Gay Sex Scandal: Homosexuality A 'Ticking Time Bomb' (VIDEO) - 2/26/13
Vatican hit by gay sex scandal - 3/4/10
Vatican chorister sacked for allegedly procuring male prostitutes for papal gentleman-in-waiting
Vatican accused of sex scandal cover-up - Cardinal Keith O’Brien - 3/5/13
Fallen Scottish Cardinal who called homosexuality 'grotesque' had 'priest boyfriend for years who told the Vatican they were lovers' - 3/22/13
GAY MARRIAGE – UNIDENTIFIED - Internalized Homophobia - 3/26/12
Homophobia
"Homophobia: The fear of feeling of love for members of one's own sex and therefore the hatred of those feelings in others... the belief in the inherent superiority of one pattern of loving and thereby its right to dominance."
There are four distinct but interrelated types of homophobia: personal, interpersonal, institutional, and cultural.
Read more:
The Campaign to End Homophobia, - by Cooper Thompson and Barbara Zoloth
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the Remedy
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earthquakes? Sexual repression can cause much worse.
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Your Brain On
Porn - by Gary Wilson - 1/5/11
Sex in Bits and
Bytes: What's the Problem?
How destructive
is Internet porn?
By Hal Arkowitz
and Scott O.
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The Sunny Side of Smut
For most people,
pornography use has no negative effects—and it may even deter sexual violence
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