http://www.thepunch.com.au/author-bios/christopher-ryan/ Psychologist and best selling author of Sex at Dawn Christopher Ryan has been based in Barcelona since the mid-1990s, He has lectured at the University of Barcelona Medical School and consulted at various medical schools and teaching hospitals throughout Spain and Latin America.  He received a BA in English and American Literature and a MA and PhD in Psychology from Saybrook University, in San Francisco. Drawing upon his multi-cultural experience, his research focused on trying to distinguish the human from the cultural. His doctoral dissertation analyses the prehistoric roots of human sexuality, and he speaks about human sexuality to audiences around the world (in both English and Spanish). Christopher also contributes to both Psychology Today and Huffington Post. en Copyright 2012 The Punch penberthyd@newsltd.com.au penberthyd@newsltd.com.au Sat, 26 May 2012 20:00:49 +0000 Sat, 26 May 2012 20:00:49 +0000 Politics, opinion, world news, sports news, latest news, views, Barack Obama, Kevin Rudd, Julia Gillard, Nathan Rees, Malcolm Turnbull, Peter Garrett, Barnaby Joyce, Australian, federal politics, opinion polls, election, The Punch, thepunch, punch ExpressionEngine 1.6.7 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 15 http://www.thepunch.com.au/images/punch-logo-rss.png http://www.thepunch.com.au/ 144 70 Politics, political opinion, world news, sports news and the latest news and views updated live, daily on The Punch - Australia's best conversation. Search The Punch keywords http://www.thepunch.com.au/search/ http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/sex-and-masturbation-evil-get-your-hand-off-it/ Nothing inspires murderous mayhem in human beings more reliably than sexual repression. Denied food, water, or freedom of movement, people may lash out at what they perceive as the source of their problems, albeit in a weakened state. But if expression of sexuality is thwarted, the human psyche tends to grow twisted into grotesque, enraged perversions of desire. Unfortunately, the distorted rage resulting from sexual repression rarely takes the form of rebellion against the people and institutions behind the repression. (If it did, perhaps we’d be reading of abused priests rather than priests as abusers.)  Instead, the rage is generally directed at helpless victims sacrificed to the sick gods of guilt, shame, and ignorant pride. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Christopher Ryan) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/sex-and-masturbation-evil-get-your-hand-off-it/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/sex-and-masturbation-evil-get-your-hand-off-it/#item6661 Tue, 20 Sep 2011 20:00:46 +0000 Christopher Ryan | Author bios | The Punch