The man who despises himself tries to gain self-esteem from sexual adventureswhich cant be done, because sex is not the cause, but an effect and an expression of a mans sense of his own value ...
The men who think that wealth comes from material resources and has no intellectual root or meaning, are the men who thinkfor the same reasonthat sex is a physical capacity which functions independently of ones mind, choice or code of values. They think that your body creates a desire and makes a choice for you just about in some such way as if iron ore transformed itself into railroad rails of its own volition. Love is blind, they say; sex is impervious to reason and mocks the power of all philosophers. But, in fact, a mans sexual choice is the result and the sum of his fundamental convictions. Tell me what a man finds sexually attractive and I will tell you his entire philosophy of life. Show me the woman he sleeps with and I will tell you his valuation of himself. No matter what corruption hes taught about the virtue of selflessness, sex is the most profoundly selfish of all acts, an act which he cannot perform for any motive but his own enjoymentjust try to think of performing it in a spirit of selfless charity!an act which is not possible in self-abasement, only in self-exaltation, only in the confidence of being desired and being worthy of desire. It is an act that forces him to stand naked in spirit, as well as in body, and to accept his real ego as his standard of value. He will always be attracted to the woman who reflects his deepest vision of himself, the woman whose surrender permits him to experienceor to fakea sense of self-esteem .... Love is our response to our highest valuesand can be nothing else.
The men who think that wealth comes from material resources and has no intellectual root or meaning, are the men who thinkfor the same reasonthat sex is a physical capacity which functions independently of ones mind, choice or code of values. They think that your body creates a desire and makes a choice for you just about in some such way as if iron ore transformed itself into railroad rails of its own volition. Love is blind, they say; sex is impervious to reason and mocks the power of all philosophers. But, in fact, a mans sexual choice is the result and the sum of his fundamental convictions. Tell me what a man finds sexually attractive and I will tell you his entire philosophy of life. Show me the woman he sleeps with and I will tell you his valuation of himself. No matter what corruption hes taught about the virtue of selflessness, sex is the most profoundly selfish of all acts, an act which he cannot perform for any motive but his own enjoymentjust try to think of performing it in a spirit of selfless charity!an act which is not possible in self-abasement, only in self-exaltation, only in the confidence of being desired and being worthy of desire. It is an act that forces him to stand naked in spirit, as well as in body, and to accept his real ego as his standard of value. He will always be attracted to the woman who reflects his deepest vision of himself, the woman whose surrender permits him to experienceor to fakea sense of self-esteem .... Love is our response to our highest valuesand can be nothing else.
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when people run on ego, usually that someone lacks a healthy self esteem, they run on fear & their actions come from a dark place.
i find this snippet intriguing but severely flawed into what sex and orgasms are about. lol