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%DISAFFIRMATION OF SEXUAL AFFECTION 801007
Failure to socially affirm sexual pleasures
constitutes a violent disaffirmation of them---which
causes repression, frustration, and violence. The absence
of affirmations is a communication. The meaning of
silence is occasioned by the context and by the perception
of those who note the silence. When there are no social
affirmations of instinctive pleasures---such pleasures
come to play perverted roles in social intercourse.
Confusion develops over the proper role in society of
those pleasures which are not socially affirmed in any
way. The confusion is compounded by taboos which make it
impossible to openly and honestly discuss such pleasures
in terms of personal experience, rather than in
exclusively academic/abstract terms. In the absence of
generally respected social affirmations of such
pleasures---perverse affirmations occur---affirmations
which conventional people use as justification for the
repressive context which occasioned the perverse
affirmations.
Integrity is not only a matter of internal
consistency in a cognitive structure---as in mathematics.
Personal integrity involves ways in which people respond
to instinctive pleasures---pleasures which are not
cognitive in origin. Exclusively cognitively oriented
people cannot provide the basis for personal integrity---
because through their exclusivity they do not respect
instinctive pleasures. They cannot conceive of social
affirmations of non-cognitive pleasures---taboos and
collusions obscure their vision and imagination. Due to
their cognitive convictions and commitments they neglect
to participate in social affirmations of instinctive
pleasures.
The evolution of species was not based upon cognitive
behavior, but upon affective and sexual behavior; upon
instinctive behavior, rewards, and pleasures. It is
foolish to attempt to promote personal integrity via any
system which fails to affirm in socially coherent ways the
pleasures which have been the basis for the evolution of
our species. To do so is like trying to promote the
development of a nation by burning all its libraries in
order to free it from its primitive past. Such an act of
misguided passion will not set people free---just as
taboos which inhibit the enjoyment of instinctive
pleasures do not set people free.
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