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Exaggerated portrayals apparently destroy desire more effectively than any repression.
Volkmar Sigusch
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Volkmar Sigusch
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: June 11
Psychiatrist
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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 pedosexuals who, even if the court forces them to go into treatment, do not pursue it or cannot pursue it.
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I will always be referred to as a theorist, but I was only a fellow traveller with a degree.
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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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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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The sexual revolution produced cultural convulsions that were unparalleled in the 20th century.
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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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Sexual desire declines after four to seven years. That's been proven.
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The sexual revolution produced cultural convulsions that were unparalleled in the 20th century. The female sex was historically sexualized and required to have orgasms for the first time. Sexual deviants, particularly homosexuals, achieved partial emancipation.
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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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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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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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While the Internet generally tends to have a stress-relieving function for adults - as long as they aren't inclined toward sex addiction - I don't see this being the case for adolescents.
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The things that could be derived from the sexual sphere - happiness, endless fun and the end of capitalism - were grossly overestimated. The symbolic overglorification was downright unbearable.
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Most pornographic images are simply too repulsive.
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I maintain that we are still a largely ignorant society when it comes to sex. We speak incorrectly and superficially about sexuality. And when you talk about it too much, you run the risk of destroying its mystery.
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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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