More bad news for the fundies. As this Washington Post story indicates (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/14/AR2007091402099.html?hpid=sec-health), a good sex life equates with good health. Maybe that explains in part why a story I noted in a prior post said that fundamentalist Christians were the most obese of any religious group. In any event, here are a few highlights of the story which will no doubt not be well received by Daddy Dobson or the frigid women of Concerned Women for America (or the gay sex obsessed men at CWA):Sexual satisfaction contributes to overall health, experts say. It may not be on par with, say, eating lots of fresh fruits and vegetables, but it's right up there. Couples who enjoy sex together fight less often and relax more easily. If they have children, family life runs more smoothly. A good sex life "helps build the bond of family and makes up for things that wear and tear on the family," says David Scharff, a Washington psychiatrist and former president of the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists. Carolyn Shaffer, a Bethesda psychologist, has seen this pattern among her clients as well, particularly men. "A man can have all these problems with his wife, but when we fix the sex life, the other things go away," she says.
In the Chicago study, women reported more problems with sex than men, with almost half having experienced lack of desire. For some, that may have been for physical reasons such as pain during intercourse. They may be quite happy simply spending a quiet evening together watching a movie.
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Ever since Judeo-Christo-Islamic creedalism interfered with biological constitutions and endowments, we see more individuals responding (or not) to their erotic drives in a plethora of bizarre ways. This "Nexus for Repression" manifests itself in numerous maladaptive measures, for example:
S&M, for example, was virtually unknown, until sexual repression required "disciplining the flesh" with a little monkish flagellation and other techniques, giving birth to de Sade's psychosexual displacement and all the deviations from natural homoerotic and hetero-erotic impulses to Fetishism. Scenes. Kink. Such behavior is truly deviant (to alter from the norm) because:
When "pain" triggers sexual "pleasure," someone's neurological wiring needs to be re-circuited. The body biologically RECOILS from pain, and OPENS to pleasure and the pleasant. To switch the two requires a lot of mental damage, the overwhelming majority of it through this pernicious J-C-I nexus of sexual repression.
Obesity, oddly, is a similarly maladaptive mechanism to fetishism. Who wants to make love to grotesquely overweight porkers? No one. So, obesity serves two repressions at once: it diminishes sexual interest and gets its "surrogate" fetish substitute from food. Since food is pleasurable, feast away, knowing that your bloated hyperlipidimic temple of some ghostly spirit is deplorable to look at.
I'm still trying to discover ONE thing that these religions actually help to enhance life.
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