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21 Sep 06:00am

Filed under: Dr John Harvey Kellogg, Festival Of Ideas, Hojatoleslam Kazem Sedighi, Repression, Sexuality, Society

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.

Dr John Kellogg (on the left) claimed not to have sex with his wife for forty years. So who did he have sex with then?

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.

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Kate says:

12:38am | 25/09/11

“If priests were allowed to form erotic connections with consenting adults, does anyone doubt that countless children would have been spared their abuse in the hands of these distorted, twisted men”? This is a myth. Married men and men who have happy, healthy sexual relationships with adults partners sexually abuse… Read more »
the apologist says:

11:08am | 23/09/11

@mel: you said: “I thought the obvious answer as to why you should supply proof is that you have made statements or presented ideas in a public forum, and people have asked you for proof of those statements. It’s only polite.” Ok - i think that’s your first attempt at… Read more »

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