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    Re: What is the dark side of sex?
    · 12/19/99 at 8:30 am ET

    You may find more about what Dr. Klein means by the dark side of sex from his essay at

    http://www.sexed.org/arch/arch08.htm

    The following passage about the dark side appears in this essay:

    "Aggression, lust for power, and greedy demands to be pleasured are all part of normal sexuality, which every adult needs to broker in some complex fashion. People learn to feel guilty about their sexual impulses as infants. "Sex addicts" are told they have nothing to feel guilty about, that they can learn to feel better one day at a time. But people know all the "good" reasons they have for feeling sexual guilt. By denying the dark side of normal, healthy sexuality that most people know they have, the concept of sexual addiction increases guilt."


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    • Helpful...Thanks, by Jim Duffy, 12/23/99

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