"Im a long gone daddy in the USA…"
Here is the reaction formation of the day. If you dont know it already a reaction formation is a defensive mechanism where anxiety producing emotions are controlled by producing the opposing tendency. Its kind of what we do when we do not want to ''set ourselves up for failure" by expecting too much or if we reject something we want because we do not want to deal with being denied the possibility of having it. Two year olds and three year olds do it all the time. Teenagers too. Its what goes behind all that negativity that seems unprovoked and hostile for no reason.
So it seems with pornography consumption and political/religious reactions towards sex. Undue sexual repression is like a reaction formation towards the thing that causes anxiety. This includes satiation of sexual desire, how women are viewed, and the notion of same gender sex and same gender love. That there is a correlation here is clear.
Those states that do consume the most porn tend to be more conservative and religious than states with lower levels of consumption, the study finds.
"Some of the people who are most outraged turn out to be consumers of the very things they claimed to be outraged by," Edelman says.
If you are wondering if this might be related to the problems in the priesthood regarding vows of celibacy, it only makes sense. While this does not mean that there is a need to let sexuality proceed unfettered by social norms, it does mean that external repression can lead to more destructive patterns of behavior in human sexuality.
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