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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.

Volkmar Sigusch

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Volkmar Sigusch
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: June 11
Psychiatrist
Psychologist
Sociologist
University Teacher
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Overestimated
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Capitalism
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Sexual desire declines after four to seven years. That's been proven.
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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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Aura of the mysterious is a minor perversion that a couple shares. A fetish that one of the two partners finds arousing, or a particular sexual scenario. Fantasies have to remain dirty. Cleanliness, scrupulousness and rationality are poison for eroticism.
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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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For people who are desperate and searching, sexuality on the Internet offers an incredible release.
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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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I will always be referred to as a theorist, but I was only a fellow traveller with a degree.
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When it comes to sexuality, people like to tell lies. It's only when it comes to money that they lie more.
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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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Good sex can be anything, including dirty.
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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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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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Some 95 percent of all sexual contact still occurs in permanent relationships. That's an impressive number.
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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 sexual revolution produced cultural convulsions that were unparalleled in the 20th century.
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Perhaps the couple got married at 25 and now they're 45 and this is an option. And if a couple is still together, or perhaps finds its way back together, I like to say that it's forever. They belong together, it's a good fit, it's the right pairing. It almost gives me goose bumps.
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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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The traits of our sexual culture are still speechlessness, loneliness, violence and not enough desire and love.
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