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%FEAR OF SEX 771007
The fear of sex originates in legalism and other
technocratic expectations. Legalism promotes expectations
which are mutually exclusive with meaningful sexual
relationships: Meaningful sexual relationships challenge
and undermine legalism,, and vice versa. Legalists thus
fear sexuality and seek to control it. They promote the
fear of sexuality as a means of controlling sexuality. As
technocrats, legalists have expectations of total-
understanding and total-control. The power and mystery of
humane sexuality stand in the way of fulfilling those
technocratic expectations. Thus technocrats fear that
power and mystery. They fear that power which can
meaningfully challenge their own power. They fear any
mystery which will not yield to their analysis.
There is no clear unambiguous boundary between
intimacy which is asexual and intimacy which is sexual.
All human intimacy involves sexuality and the possibility
of sexuality. The promotion of the fear of sexuality is
at the same time the promotion of the fear of all human
intimacy. Thus legalists and technocrats in general fear
human intimacy because of the intimations of sexuality
present in all human intimacy. Their fears are well
grounded, for all human intimacy has a tendency to promote
the transcendence of legalism and technocracy ---
undermining arrogant presumptions of total understanding
and control.
Human intimacy involves openness, honesty,
vulnerability, trust and the free flow of dialogue via
many channels of communication. Love is the Power which
promotes such intimacy with sacrificial concern for the
welfare of others' rights within a just society. Legalists
and technocrats in general fear the ambiguity and
uncertainty which are essential aspects of humane intimacy
--- just as they fear the revelations which may be
occasioned by humane intimacy. They fear that lovers may
come to recognize arrogance and presumptuousness, and
thereby be set free to see, decide, and act---apart from
authoritarian controls designed by special interest
groups. Their fear motivates them to promote the fear of
sex in the broadest possible ways from the earliest
moments of life.
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