Distorted Desire Quotes

“When a man has not integrated his sexuality, he unconsciously assigns responsibility for it to women. He blames her for “tempting” him.
He feels threatened by her beauty.
He distrusts his attraction to her, then distrusts her for evoking it.
He sees her body as the cause of his impulses.
He resents her for awakening the very life-force he fears within himself.
He splits himself in two — the man who craves, and the man who condemns.

This is not healthy conscious masculinity.
This is fear wearing the mask of control.

Unclaimed desire doesn’t disappear.
It leaks.
It projects.
It becomes judgement, fixation, entitlement, obsession, shame, and/or avoidance.”
― Ava Sol, The Sovereign Man: Integrating the Inner Feminine and Returning to Wholeness