This-essay is a7612111.htm which is available at the
web-site www.essayz.com. See more notes at the bottom.
Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay
By-Months By-Years By-Words
Webs of Like-&-Un-Like ESSAYS <==> Like-&-UN-Like This-One
==========================================================
%SEXUAL VIOLENCE 761211
Sexual violence is usually associated with the
frustration of sexual desires/needs. In some instances
the frustration is immediate in relation to present
possibilities for sexual fulfillment. In other instances
the frustration originates in inadequate affectionate
experiences during infancy, childhood, and adolescence---
leaving scars of inadequate role-models and the repression
of outgoing instincts. In any case the frustration
originates in the inability to cope with the tension
between essential instinctive desires for giving and
receiving love on the one hand, and circumstances,
background, and social pressures which block that giving
and receiving. The person who has not been helped to
develop the maturity to cope with that tension will often
release it through violent intimacy---rather than through
healthy sexual intimacy. The intimacy of violence is
chosen in preference to the sin of separation and
indifference. In a tragic way the immature effort at
communication tends to block future communication. Those
who attempt to deal with the tragedy in technical ways---
compound the tragedy. Legalistic procedures and prisons
only intensify the sexual frustrations which fueled the
violence. The natural consequence is intensified
violence, in the form of homosexuality and prison riots.
It is difficult to determine how much of human
violence can be traced meaningfully to sexual frustration.
It is probably a much larger fraction than any sexually
up-tight society will be willing to admit. The fraction
is probably large enough that it is irrelevant to
determine just how large it is. Our responsibility to
take steps to minimize sexual frustrations and people's
inability to cope meaningfully with them is only weakly
dependent upon the exact value of that fraction. One only
has to consider the frequency of sex related violence to
become overwhelmed with the scope of the responsibility:
rapes, rape-murders, child-molestations and related
murders, husband/wife murders, spouse desertions, violent
divorces, sexual blackmail, marital arguments, child-
beatings, infidelity, violations of sexual non-
conformists, violations of nude models and prostitutes,
economic violence associated with pornography, crime
financed through the sex trade, sexual alienation of
institutionalized persons and soldiers, military rape, the
violence of war, and war preparations.
(c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in
www.essayz.com Search for Integrity and Honesty
(On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)
==========================================================
Lines beginning with a percent sign are KEYWORDS for use
in ESSAY-System Searches. Their terminal digits are dates
of writing in the format @yymmdd#, where @ = a means 99,
@ = b means 20, and # = is a within-date essay-count.
Links to date-adjacent essays are near page top & bottom.
Find the following links by clicking on CENTER when CENTER
near the top or bottom of a web page of essayz.com
1. Go to HOME PAGE of essayz.com
2. Find brief-essays via keywords
3. Find brief-essay about ADDICTION
4. Search-Helps related to ABOVE-LINK
5. GoTo Action & Information Center
6. Find Regular-Essays via Year/Month
7. Find Regular-Essays via Word-Starts
8. Find Regular-Essay about LOVE
This-essay is a7612111.htm which is available at the
web-site www.essayz.com. These 5 lines echo top lines.
Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay
By-Months By-Years By-Words
Webs of Like-&-Un-Like ESSAYS <==> Like-&-UN-Like This-One