Quote: (04-29-2017 08:18 PM)Jean Valjean Wrote:
The Dworkin quote is interesting. I've been theorizing for awhile now that male-female relationships tend to take on either a father-daughter or mother-son dynamic, depending on which party is dominant. (The problem with the latter is that, while men might desire the kind of unconditional love their mom offered, women are not going to provide that to anyone but their offspring.)
I would be kinda careful of accepting Dworkin's theory, mainly because
(a) she reckons she was sexually abused as a child, which generates a fucked-up worldview of itself
(b) the Westermarck Effect essentially disproves what she says. It appears a hardwired epigenetic rule, that is, literally human nature, that people don't fuck the close relatives they grew up with. You have to be really fucked up to still be channelling Freud in this day and age.
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