"To understand young drug addicts, they must be likened to participants in ancient initiatory rites that have fallen into disuse in our modern society. This product of the isolation of young people today 'covers up a thirst for initiation that Western culture and society can no
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You are talking there of peaceful spiced sexuality. René Girard compares sexuality and violence in Violence and the Sacred, talking about very dark behaviors. Substitutions occur with frustration, leading to make sexual objects of many things, in a predative way.
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Okay, I have read some of his stuff on sadomasochism, bdsm type of stuff is that what you are referring to or does he talk about paraphilia in general or toward inanimate objects or non-humans? Is this sexuality “love”? I have yet to finished Violence & The Sacred.
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But even in sexuality love, René Girard observed that orgasm looks like a crisis with doubles and a resolution (non sacrificial ?) when a climax has been reached. The structure of love making is strangely similar to the structure of collective violence.
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I have not read that and would need to think about it but yes sex is an aggressive, testosterone fueled event so it checks out at first glance.
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Women have orgasms too but I don't know what hormones are involved, probably not testosterone. Pleasure leads to reproduction, its biological function is obvious, but why is it given in such a paroxystic way, I don't know.
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No, I’m not talking about orgasm or climax, but the sex act itself leading up to the climax, which involves a lot of testosterone from both sexes. Testosterone in some sense is the sex hormone for both, men having more is why they have much higher libido.
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This I got from
@RationalMale not any psychological literature so I could be mistaken. My understanding is it’s interrelated with adrenaline as well and with all the excitement that makes sense.
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