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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
Psychologist
Sociologist
University Teacher
Apparently
Destroy
Desire
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Exaggerated
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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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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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You're married to a woman who has no objection to another woman joining the couple. Then she brings in her boyfriend. Suddenly you realize - my God! - you can love more than one person. In fact, you can love several people at the same time.
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