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museum of loneliness

by Chris Petit

In Sexual Excitement, Robert Stoller describes the case of a woman attracted to men she sensed as dangerous. “Men with this attribute were dehumanised by her in that her excitement occurred only when she rid them of their individuality and responded to their common characteristic: they were phallic. That is they were brittle-strong; erotically driven; unable to sustain intimacy in a woman’s embrace; hard and forceful in carriage, speech and expression of feeling rather than showing such ‘weakness‘ as tenderness of generosity; fiercely competitive professionally without loving their work; unreliable. Every man of this sort was exciting, for she saw them all as equal. (I believe dehumanising is the main motive behind promiscuity – ‘indiscriminate mingling‘ says the dictionary – as different from other styles of liking and wanting a variety of sexual objects.)”

MoL says, bring it on.

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