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I will always be referred to as a theorist, but I was only a fellow traveller with a degree.

Volkmar Sigusch

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Volkmar Sigusch
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: June 11
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There will be other forms in addition to our classic marriage. One is already looming on the horizon: polyamory, or having more than one intimate partner.
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Some 95 percent of all sexual contact still occurs in permanent relationships. That's an impressive number.
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Sexuality is pushed back more and more and people try to replace what they've lost with other forms of excitement.
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Internet sexuality shows that we're becoming more and more self-involved. I'm talking about self-sex.
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The social problem is that we haven't come up with any alternative models. Our culture hasn't developed an ars erotica. Think, for example, of conditions in India or in Japanese culture and of how the erotic has been cultivated there. They're not as clinical and rabbit-like as we are.
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Exaggerated portrayals apparently destroy desire more effectively than any repression.
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Most young people seem to be behaving very intelligently: They look at things once in a while, but then they find it so idiotic and uncool that they just look away again. That is, provided they're not growing up in a family in which a drunk father is already watching pornos in the morning.
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Just go to an auto show, and you'll see all the signs of sexual arousal in the men: shiny eyes, tremors, sex flush. An acute example of the need for professional sex research.
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With an intelligent couple, it ought to be possible for the husband or wife to look for satisfaction outside the relationship - while always taking the partner into consideration, meaning acting openly but still discreetly.
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The traits of our sexual culture are still speechlessness, loneliness, violence and not enough desire and love.
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It's very important to approach pedophiles and pedosexuals and offer them therapy. It's been my experience that you can reach your objective with what I would call kind-hearted, informed and enlightened patients - in the sense that they don't lose their desire, but that they no longer have physical contact with children. That would be the goal.
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I'm reminded of a female patient who was particularly aroused by the shape of her husband's shoulder. And this hint of perversion should ideally remain a secret for both partners.
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Good sex can be anything, including dirty.
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Key feature of sexual revolution is the large-scale publication and commercialization of details that were once secret. Sexuality has been trivialized. The interesting thing about this is that exaggerated portrayals apparently destroy desire more effectively than any repression.
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There are many options in a marriage. If the couple has been together for a certain amount of time and has a certain amount of liberalism or life experience, it could be the kind of relationship in which one partner ventures into the occasional affair, which is then forgiven. This only happens every 13 years on average, but it obviously does occur.
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Fantasies have to remain dirty. Cleanliness, scrupulousness and rationality are poison for eroticism.
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The sexual revolution of the 1960s was mostly a movement of young people. I felt that the so-called free relationships were overrated.
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There are young men who want thrills but no longer value sex, so they do completely different things, including aggressive things.
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Sexual desire declines after four to seven years. That's been proven.
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It's important for a couple to talk about their sexual preferences. On the other hand, the aura of the mysterious should be preserved.
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