Elisabella
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So, if they had a fantasy to do it an did do it, and aren't "wrong"...then the act itself is not "wrong". It is either a compatible act with someone's happiness or it isn't. So the question becomes: do some people have a neurological quirk that makes them desire things they really don't desire (which is a vague beginning basis for what constitutes most psychological disorders) or are people really inwardly wagging their own finger at themselves until they choose to shove their fantasies into the "think, don't do" box? I understand your line of thinking but you're never going to get a satisfactory answer. You're looking for a rational explanation to a human condition. I have had fantasies, relatively tame ones, that came true, that I did not enjoy in the slightest. Among other things, I'm not a masochist, in fact I'm overly sensitive and I hate pain. So something that might seem so hot in my head, where there's no physical activity to cause pain, will be awful for me in real life. Someone else could have the same fantasy, act it out, and love it. So it's not the fantasy or the act itself, it's the person. I disagree with your categorization of "desiring things you don't really desire" because generally speaking, most fantasies aren't about the act itself. They're about a representation of a concept. Take a gang bang fantasy - one woman might fantasize about it because she enjoys the thought of being used like an object, another woman might like the thought of being forced against her will, another might like feeling so irresistable that many men can't keep their hands off her, another might like the pain of having her genitals bruised and swollen...the reasons why a person fantasizes about a certain thing will influence whether they enjoy acting it out. As far as this: quote:
Why not? What exactly is getting harmed in most of these hypothetical cases apart from our own subconscious moralities? I think you underestimate the value of self image. Not everyone considers being called a hedonist a compliment...but everyone does have to live with themselves. I don't enjoy having casual sex - the act itself isn't fun for me - but even if I did enjoy it, I still would not want to be the type of person who had casual sex whenever I was in the mood for it. I wouldn't be able to respect myself, my friends wouldn't respect me, the type of men I am interested in a relationship with wouldn't respect me, and so on. As composite human beings worth more than the sum of our private parts, we have to balance our instinctual drives with self-awareness. We get to define ourselves as who we want to be, and sometimes that means choosing which thoughts to act on and which ones to keep as thoughts.
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