You wrote: "Sex can be emotionally powerful." This is an extremely misleading way to discuss sex!! It is a way that represents not science and not psychology but rather an ideology of dubious truth. This statement ("sex can be emotionally powerful"), like the whole "sex-addiction" industry, is a mystification of human sexuality (and, by extension, a mystification of human drives in general). And, as such, it is a statement representing a kind of sex ideology regularly used by many persons in the service of disparaging sexuality and the variety of human expressions of sexuality. The fact is that sex IS WHATEVER one makes of it! On its own, sex is both meaningless and powerless. Period. Read Dr. Klein's article on the meaninglessness of sex! It's not sex that is "emotionally powerful." That's an anti-sceintific and anti-psychological mystification of human sexuality! It is one's EMOTIONS-AND-REASONING that make of sex whatever one makes of it! Mystifications of the so-called meanings--OR so-called "POWER"!!!--of human sexuality are almost always used to serve the ends of those who would obscure the science of sexology, who would obscure scientific reasoning itself, and who have a tacit or explicit sex ideology that can be advanced only if science and the science of sexology in particular are first dismissed. Mystifications of sex are part of a sexual ideology used to advance one's own emotional interpretations of what one believes "THE meaning" or the "Power" of sex OUGHT to be. One who says "sex is emotionally powerful" believes sex SHOULD be emotionally powerful and that one meaning of sex is that it confers and activates emotional power. Well, that's probably what sex is but only for persons who believe that's what sex is.
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