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“It was masturbation, not willpower, that made it possible for gazillions of women to walk down the aisle with their reputation and their hymen still intact.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, On Masturbation: A Satirical Essay

tags: aids, bj, blow-job, church, cunnilingus, dignity, dignity-of-women, dignity-quotes, essay, essays, fake, family, family-planning, fellatio, health, hiv, hiv-aids, hiv-and-aids, humor, humour, hymen, marriage, masturbate, masturbation, onanism, orgasm, orgasms, parents, pleasure, pretense, pride, relationships, religion, saire, self-abuse, self-love, sex, sexuality, sexy-humor, virgin, virginity, vows, wedding

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“Neo-Freudian Karen Horney believed that childhood experiences resulted in our creation of a self that “moved toward people” or “moved away from people.” These tendencies were a sort of mask that could develop into neurosis if we were not willing to move beyond them. Underneath was what she called a “wholehearted,” or real, person.”
― Tom Butler-Bowdon, 50 Psychology Classics: Who We Are, How We Think, What We Do: Insight and Inspiration from 50 Key Books

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“Instead of turning away from them (war conditions) in instinctive horror, as people seem to expect, the child may turn towards them with primitive excitement. The real danger is not that the child, caught up all innocently in the whirlpool of war, will be shocked into illness. The danger lies in the fact that the destruction ranging in the outer world may meet the very real aggressiveness ranging in the inside of the child”
― Anna Freud, War and Children

tags: children, human-nature, war

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“I believe that individuals nowadays are probably more aware of their inner loneliness than has ever been true before in history.”
― Carl R. Rogers, On Encounter Groups

tags: existential, loneliness, person-centred

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“The right wing has a large proportion of authoritarian personalities. They tend to believe man is, by nature, basically evil. Surrounded as all of us are by the bigness of impersonal forces which seem beyond our power to control, they look for the 'enemy', so that they can hate him. At different times in history 'the enemy' has been the witch, the demon, the Communist (remember Joe McCarthy?), and now sex education, sensitivity training, 'non-religious humanism', and other current demons.

- attributed to James E. Harmon”
― Carl R. Rogers, On Encounter Groups

tags: authoritarianism, fear, prejudice, right-wing-politics

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