“Today we are going to talk about sex problems,” Dr Phil says. “And here is the expert who will help us. She knows all about it because she’s an OB-GYN.”
In the meanwhile, every – and I mean every single one – article that mentions the word “sex” hastens to add that “we are a sex-obsessed country.” Obviously, this delusional belief allows people to avoid discussing the deeply unpleasant, to them, subject of sex and avoid knowing even the most basic facts about sexual health.
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There are yankees writing this sort of unintelligible stuff, too:
http://www.rolereboot.org/sex-and-relationships/details/2014-07-lets-strike-7-bad-reasons-women-marry-men/
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And this sounds like it was written by Dr Phil!
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I’m also reading amazing things in an old book by evolutionary psychologist David Buss, where he claims that emotional investment in marriage drops off after four to five years. Just amazing things. And all about the fakery that premarried couples engage in, to heighten their value on the market place. And how they’re really looking to heighten their evolutionary success through producing random offspring. It’s just amazing how a how culture can get sucked into a mindset like this.
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Of all the grand narratives , evo psych is the most primitive and boring.
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I think it’s appeal is in its primitive nature, because that means that it can reach a lot of people. Try speaking to somone in high intellectual terms, and that doesn’t work so well.
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Why are you watching Dr. Phil? Please don’t tell me you like him.
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It’s my most favorite show ever! It’s the best comedy you can find on any channel by far. Every episode ends with me rolling on the floor, laughing at the “psychological wisdoms” uttered on the show.
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This is a deeply adolescent country that somehow manages to combine both Victorian and Puritan mores with the production of the most boring and unimaginative porn.
Hence an adolescent can see scads of torrented porn but not know what a clitoris is.
I’m not sure what an adult country looks like.
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Exactly.
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“I’m not sure what an adult country looks like …”
Wink wink, nudge nudge, say no more, say no more …
Uh … yeah, what’s it like? 🙂
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Shakti —
Seriously though, I’ve often imagined Neal Stephenson’s “New Victorians” not as British, but as North Americans acquainted with Victorian ideas while possessing a Puritan frame of reference …
I imagine that they look like American Civil War re-enactors, in fact. 🙂
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