"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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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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@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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I didn't want to give examples because some are uncontroversial (masturbation, prostitution : substitutes) but some can be controversial (homosexuality can be mimetic/substitutive rather than natural/hormonal) and some are very dark (rape, paraphilia, as you say, child abuse...).
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You described better sexuality love :-) Mimetical in many ways, some behaviors are cultural, imitated, influenced by others, even sometimes a little bit violent, and even sometimes "substitutive" but globally peaceful, with feelings. tenderness and so on.
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