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Friday, 11 July 2008
Objectophiles
Freud came up with some very good ones, none better than the concept of Polymorphous Perversity. What a great sounding term isn’t it? But what does it mean?
Well according to Freud all of us were born polymorphously perverse. Did you know that you were once perverse? Every newborn infant is born with this sexual orientation as we can call it and slowly it reduces over time until the child is about 5 years of age. That is in normal human development.
Each newborn has no sexual orientation. That is their erotic focus is not fixated on any one “thing”. As a result they find many different things erotic and sexually arousing. Hence they can quite readily have incestuous sexual feelings and are fully bisexual in their orientation. Of course as they have not yet developed any conscience these erotic attractions go on guilt free in the young child’s mind.
As the child develops slowly but surely the variety gets smaller and smaller until eventually they have an erotic focus or sexual orientation that is quite specific. For the average heterosexual that means they are sexually attracted to a member of the opposite sex of approximately the same age.
For some people this does not happen and they don’t develop a quite specific focus. For instance the bisexual could be seen as such a person. The true bisexual in the psychological sense has a sexual orientation to members of both sexes. So they remain more polymorphously perverse. Interestingly enough Freud would argue that these people are less neurotic than your average heterosexual or homosexual.
The human psyche. A strange thing it is at times.
The way the child gets its sexual focus more specific is by the defence mechanism of repression. The child simply represses each sexual focus that its Parent ego state deems as inappropriate. So this person is more neurotic and highly defended than the person who remains polymorphously perverse. They remain more in their Free Child ego state and less neurotic.
Then we have the problem of what becomes the person’s sexual focus and orientation. Our society says it should be heterosexual to a person of approximately the same age. Indeed it is becoming more acceptable or ‘normal’ to have a homosexual orientation to a person of approximately the same age. Of course sometimes neither of these happen and then we get people like the “Objectophile”. The person who develops a sexual focus towards and inanimate object. Like a wall or a bike or a painting. These people will develop the same form of attachment and feelings towards the object as others develop towards a human partner. They fall in love with it in just the same way.
Indeed this is the psychological mechanism behind many of the fetishes. The man who develops a foot fetish ot breast fetish in one way is an objectophile. Although he usually wont admit it to his wife, he is not actually in love with her but in love with that particular part of her anatomy. The rest of her is just happens to be attached to the foot or the breasts.
This person is not polymorphously perverse as they have developed normally in that they have a specific sexual focus. But their sexual focus or orientation is deemed by their society to be odd, neurotic and maybe even illegal.
Graffiti
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I think Freud was a sick m**********r.
Posted by: kahless | Friday, 11 July 2008
Also, Boinkology has a funny post on this...
The Fetish of Creepy Fetishes
Posted by: April | Saturday, 12 July 2008
I hope my comments are saved somewhere---they're not posting. If not, I'll be back.
Posted by: April | Saturday, 12 July 2008
I like breasts to be attached to the womans chest Tony. I must admit to feeling occasionaly disapointed with some enhanced breasts. It would seem that some women go about showing breasts in a way to give permissions to objectify breasts. Talk about objectophile enablers but its ok generally.
kenoath
Posted by: kenoath | Saturday, 12 July 2008
That is a good one kenoath,
An objectophile enabler!
Graffiti
Posted by: Tony | Saturday, 12 July 2008
Hi April,
Sounds good, but I am not too sure what Boinkology is?
Tony
Posted by: Tony | Saturday, 12 July 2008
Kahless,
You got the number of asterisks correct!
Remember Asterxi the gaul? One of my favs
Tony
Posted by: Tony | Saturday, 12 July 2008
Tony
I counted them out twice to make sure!!
Yes I remember Asterix. I quite liked Tin Tin.
Posted by: kahless | Saturday, 12 July 2008
It's a website about sex...
http://boinkology.com/2008/07/11/the-fetish-of-creepy-fetishes/
Posted by: April | Sunday, 13 July 2008
Oh, and my comment that did disappear:
My favorite sex advice person, Dan Savage, says that it's a waste of time to try to figure out what causes a person's particular kinks and as long as your with a consenting adult, you should try to be GGG (game, giving, good)---except for concerns about bodily harm, etc. I mean, focus on that positive aspects of whatever turns your partner on---that they're willing to share it with you.
I really enjoy his podcasts:
http://podcasts.thestranger.com/savagelove/
Posted by: April | Sunday, 13 July 2008
Hi April, Yep I agree if they are two adults and consenting it is up to them what they do
Cheers
Tony
Posted by: Tony | Sunday, 13 July 2008