F. Roger Devlin is back with a new article at Counter Currents that's titled "The Question of Female Masochism."
Devlin has been a big influence on the manosphere. Back in 2008, his "Home Economics" series of articles defined a lot of what we now call "Red Pill Thinking."
I don't want to give spoilers on this well-written piece, but to summarize: it looks at why people are reluctant to openly discuss the real reasons behind why women often choose brutal or abusive men as lovers. He dismisses Freudian psychology and feminist denial and delves into what makes women tick with ideas like this:
"We are attracted to qualities in the opposite sex which our own sex lacks. For many women, this means an attraction to male brutality. Such women may claim to want a sensitive fellow who is in touch with his feelings, but this bears no relation to their behavior."
His statements on women's denial of their own sexual urges ties right into the recent story about how that was displayed when women's sexual arousal was measured by researchers during a "vaginal probe study."
The forthcoming "50 Shades of Grey" movie makes this a timely article and I hope a lot of people searching for answers about why that book was so popular somehow find this. Oddly, he omits any mention of "50 Shades."
He also doesn't mention the British writer Theodore Dalrymple, but Dalrymple's 2001 book "Life at the Bottom: The Worldview That Makes the Underclass" came to many of the same conclusions with its stories about nurses whose lives consisted of choosing one abusive man after another (lots of links here).
Devlin has been a big influence on the manosphere. Back in 2008, his "Home Economics" series of articles defined a lot of what we now call "Red Pill Thinking."
I don't want to give spoilers on this well-written piece, but to summarize: it looks at why people are reluctant to openly discuss the real reasons behind why women often choose brutal or abusive men as lovers. He dismisses Freudian psychology and feminist denial and delves into what makes women tick with ideas like this:
"We are attracted to qualities in the opposite sex which our own sex lacks. For many women, this means an attraction to male brutality. Such women may claim to want a sensitive fellow who is in touch with his feelings, but this bears no relation to their behavior."
His statements on women's denial of their own sexual urges ties right into the recent story about how that was displayed when women's sexual arousal was measured by researchers during a "vaginal probe study."
The forthcoming "50 Shades of Grey" movie makes this a timely article and I hope a lot of people searching for answers about why that book was so popular somehow find this. Oddly, he omits any mention of "50 Shades."
He also doesn't mention the British writer Theodore Dalrymple, but Dalrymple's 2001 book "Life at the Bottom: The Worldview That Makes the Underclass" came to many of the same conclusions with its stories about nurses whose lives consisted of choosing one abusive man after another (lots of links here).