Abraham Maslow. I never took him seriously: ancient history; discredited woo. Skimming his 1964 _Religions, Values, and Peak Experiences_; realizing I was wrong. Read charitably, he’s got considerable wisdom & rigorous sense about meaningness that our culture has lost since.
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I know some people exist who don’t have sex like this but I assumed they were a minority.
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Well, there’s sex per se, and then there’s learned sexual self-loathing. I don’t know of statistics but my general impression is that for many people sex doesn’t work well, and that many reject their own sexuality.
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Have you read Durkheim? In his religious study there is a consistent assignment of men as "sacred" and women as "profane". I'm curious how Maslow reaches alternate conclusion here. As a woman, it is really challenging for me to reason about my own worthiness as being transitive.
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He draws on several sources. The most promising (imo) is tantra, which is explicit about women’s equality.
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There’s a temptation to read and understand that as primarily about gender, for obvious reasons; but it can also be read through a democratic frame. The idea of every man, and every woman, having something divine to them reads as radical in an era where competition defines worth.
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Yes! Important!
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You do realize practically every Hindu temple fuses the sacred and the profane this way? That passage you cite would not surprise a yogi or sadhu.
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Yes. I practice Buddhist tantra, which does this also.
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I must be a very bad person, because I chortled a bit at "it stuck out for me".
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I nearly reworded that before deciding to leave it…
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