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How a Woman's Orgasm Can Save a Man
If males feel that there is an implicit load of female anger they cannot handle, why do they necessarily feel so?
Freud may have the answer, although we should understand that his purportedly universally applicable notions about gender and sexuality are true only within narrowly patriarchal cultures. Luckily for Freud, most cultures are indeed that way.
Freud somehow alighted on the idea that women were "castrated" men. One would have to ask in what sense that were true and whether any of the possible senses in which it might be thought factual are meaningful. Certainly, modern medicine does not see reality in that light, so any meaning still attributable to the term must necessarily be non-biological and metaphorical, symbolic or perhaps simply psychological. In my view, it has a psychological and social meaning.
I have no wish to reread the entrails of the article to try to determine what has gone wrong with the American psyche. I can tell you that the idea of the new therapy for men is that women should say sorry to men for holding that males do not have the strength to endure the power of female sexuality and anger. Men, in turn, can recover from their sense of wounded masculinity by giving women prescriptive clitoral rubbings, possibly in group sessions.
What lurks in the shadows is the Freudian meaning of this bizarre spectacle of ideas, which like the whole of Freudianism has nothing to do with women or actual female sexuality, but relates to men alone. There are men who feel guilty for patriarchy, as they implicitly understand that patriarchal systems have castrated women -- that is, robbed women of their natural power.
The clitoral rubbings may therefore serve to reassure said males that women are not, in fact "castrated". At least, not always in sexual terms. They can still be turned on by you; there is still something going on in terms of women's sexuality. Socially and politically, nonetheless, patriarchy still continues to castrate them. In terms of communication, they may often be silenced, humiliated and hence "castrated" by patriarchal mores. But sexually, this is not necessarily always the case.
Of course, their orgasms will be subdued to the degree that women's self-esteem is undermined by systematic patriarchal oppression. That is why women don't really have a mind-splintering orgasm in the context of this new therapy.
Anyway enough of that and here's a joke:
How a Woman's Orgasm Can Save a Man
If males feel that there is an implicit load of female anger they cannot handle, why do they necessarily feel so?
Freud may have the answer, although we should understand that his purportedly universally applicable notions about gender and sexuality are true only within narrowly patriarchal cultures. Luckily for Freud, most cultures are indeed that way.
Freud somehow alighted on the idea that women were "castrated" men. One would have to ask in what sense that were true and whether any of the possible senses in which it might be thought factual are meaningful. Certainly, modern medicine does not see reality in that light, so any meaning still attributable to the term must necessarily be non-biological and metaphorical, symbolic or perhaps simply psychological. In my view, it has a psychological and social meaning.
I have no wish to reread the entrails of the article to try to determine what has gone wrong with the American psyche. I can tell you that the idea of the new therapy for men is that women should say sorry to men for holding that males do not have the strength to endure the power of female sexuality and anger. Men, in turn, can recover from their sense of wounded masculinity by giving women prescriptive clitoral rubbings, possibly in group sessions.
What lurks in the shadows is the Freudian meaning of this bizarre spectacle of ideas, which like the whole of Freudianism has nothing to do with women or actual female sexuality, but relates to men alone. There are men who feel guilty for patriarchy, as they implicitly understand that patriarchal systems have castrated women -- that is, robbed women of their natural power.
The clitoral rubbings may therefore serve to reassure said males that women are not, in fact "castrated". At least, not always in sexual terms. They can still be turned on by you; there is still something going on in terms of women's sexuality. Socially and politically, nonetheless, patriarchy still continues to castrate them. In terms of communication, they may often be silenced, humiliated and hence "castrated" by patriarchal mores. But sexually, this is not necessarily always the case.
Of course, their orgasms will be subdued to the degree that women's self-esteem is undermined by systematic patriarchal oppression. That is why women don't really have a mind-splintering orgasm in the context of this new therapy.
Anyway enough of that and here's a joke:
The mortuary received a dead body it was marked jj as the name. The person who attended the corpse was fascinated with the size of the corpse's penis which was abnormally huge to the extent that he hadn't seen such a thing in his life. He cut it off and showed everyone at the bar and they were shocked. He went home with it and showed his wife.
The wife said: Oh, my god, my jj is dead.
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Most men haven't got a clue about how political power works. They do not register it until they feel the force of it and then, they don't analyse the whys and wherefores. Patriarchy means a little as any 'arcy' does to them. They are politically ignorant.
As for sexuality, I suspect that most men have matured without having knowledge about the orgasmic function of the clitoris and therefore, in their relationships with women, they never satisfy sexually. Bad relationships i.e. top down patriarchal relationships are made worse, nay intolerably boring by sexual ignorance on the part of the male. Without orgasm, the female's libido either dies on the vine or searches elsewhere for release. Many, many marriages crack up on these rocks. Many, many men and women live lives of quiet desperation within the political dynamics of patriarchal power. A dead libido is a hard thing to live with.
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