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This-essay is a8010071.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 ========================================================== %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. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in www.essayz.com Search for Integrity and Honesty (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================
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