Jacob this is all really well put. I'm glad I stumbled onto your blog.
I want to tie two things in your post together: This whole conversation reminds me of a thing, which is a difference between the rapist and the man wrapped up in consensual love-making. And that is, for one reason or another, the rapist has felt compelled to suppress his subconscious desires to some degree, whether from his own fear of them or some other lack of acceptance of them. I also like your assertion that male desire can be celebrated and embraced without encouraging patriarchy, objectification, or violence, as long as the expressions that are celebrated are those that accept & create equality, love, and building-up of the feminine rather than tearing it down. And maybe that celebration of male desire in his environment gives a man just a little bit more of the compassion for himself, and the self-confidence, and the sense of his own appetites as positive, that necessarily makes him both less inclined to commit acts of shame & abuse in the dark, and
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Thanks for the great comment. I agree that self-love is the foundation of love of others, self-love being synonymous with the Freudian embrace of the repressed. I am sometimes posting on liyage.wordpress.com and empiricalnutrition.wordpress.com
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I want to tie two things in your post together: This whole conversation reminds me of a thing, which is a difference between the rapist and the man wrapped up in consensual love-making. And that is, for one reason or another, the rapist has felt compelled to suppress his subconscious desires to some degree, whether from his own fear of them or some other lack of acceptance of them. I also like your assertion that male desire can be celebrated and embraced without encouraging patriarchy, objectification, or violence, as long as the expressions that are celebrated are those that accept & create equality, love, and building-up of the feminine rather than tearing it down. And maybe that celebration of male desire in his environment gives a man just a little bit more of the compassion for himself, and the self-confidence, and the sense of his own appetites as positive, that necessarily makes him both less inclined to commit acts of shame & abuse in the dark, and ( ... )
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You've ended my four day lengthy hunt! God Bless you man.
Have a great day. Bye
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Rеading this post reminds me of my good old
гoom mаtе! He always kept chatting about this. I ѡill forաard this articlе tο him.
Ϝairly ϲertain he will have a good гead. Thank you for sharing!
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Anyhow, just ѡanted to say fantastic blog!
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