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This was originally a Psychology Thesis Paper in 1996. i will rework this and add to it insha'Allah. My professor was originally against the classification of homosexuality as a disorder and "abnormal." After reading this he said he changed his mind 180 degrees. Yeah, Right! 

When surveyed as to what the hottest controversy of the nineties is, the majority of college students surveyed claimed either the abortion debate or the concern over “gay rights." Both of which are manifestations springing forth from the root of sexual discord and sexual anarchy, the birthchild of the sexual revolution.

But in the wake of this discord, confusion and differences of opinion are the only inevitable realities and all interpretations of sexual idealism will be veiled by the shroud of cultural baggage and surrounding society’s conceptualizations of right and wrong.

An actual case of sexual impartiality is a rarity and dare I say near impossibility with one side attempting to forward their agenda of acceptance of their sexuality and the other side usually attempting to pursue the path of self deprivation, shame and sexual inhibitions.

In most cases, however, arguments from both sides are based upon the rationale, (if such a word is even applicable, perhaps opinion is more accurate), of like-minded individuals interested only in forwarding their biased agendas as the absolute truth with little or no biological basis whatsoever. Rather the opposing sides present either a stagnated ideal of total negation and denial in order to obtain "spiritual purity" or a notion that whatever occurs under the sun is "Nature-Ordained" and thus normal and healthy (both emotionally and spiritually)...thus leading to sexual anarchy, disorders and imbalance never recognized as thus. This creates a problem in discovering what is "normal" and "abnormal" human sexual behavior, and on an individual and societal level, does it even matter psychologically and/or physiologically?

In this study, seeking to define sexual abnormality, we will discuss relevant theories and previous research. We will also discuss empirical studies and actual records that have been observed in both human and non-human sexual relations, including hetero, homo and bisexuality along with pedophilia, interspecies sex (bestiality) and monogamy and polygamy in both pre and post industrialized cultures. Thus we will see how this coincides with the relevant theories and previous research we have discussed, summarize the statistical analysis, evaluate and interpret the data and finally come to a conclusive decision as to what should be defined as "normal" and "abnormal" sexual behavior. Furthermore, for the individual seeking an understanding of the mystical properties sexual energies and intercourse, this will serve as a basic introduction to the logical, scientific-empirical basis for what is, in the East, referred to as Tantric sexual Yoga, or "Sexual Alchemy."

Relevant Theories and Previous Research

Over the years many different classification systems have been used, varying in terms of how useful they are and how universally they have been accepted by mental-health workers. Today, however, one standard system, devised by the American Psychiatric Association has emerged and is employed by most professionals to diagnose and classify abnormal behavior. This classification system is known as the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. (Feldman, p539)

Published in 1994, DSM-IV presents comprehensive and relatively precise definitions for more than 200 separate diagnostic categories. Among these are:

"Sexual Disorders (problems related to sexual arousal from unusual objects or problems related to sexual functioning).

Recent advances in our understanding of the biological basis of behavior have supported the importance of considering physiological factors in abnormal behavior. For instance, some of the most severe forms of psychological disturbance are the result of genetic factors, or malfunctioning in the transmission of neurotransmission. (Feldman, p 537)

When an individual displays symptoms of abnormal behavior, the root cause will be found in a physical examination of the individual, be it a hormonal imbalance, a chemical deficiency, or a brain injury.  However, most people with dysfunction’s are able to feed themselves, hold a job, get along with others and in general live as productive members of society.

One approach to defining sexual abnormality is to consider the degree of deviation from the average, or typical behavior. In order to determine abnormality, we simply observe what behaviors are statistically rare and infrequent in a society and label these deviations from the average abnormal. (Feldman,376)

The problem with this is that some behaviors that are statistically unusual hardly seem worthy of concern. Even though most people have sexual intercourse in the bedroom, does that someone prefers sex in the dining room imply abnormality? Clearly the answer is no, so an approach that defines abnormality in terms of deviation from the average is inappropriate. (Feldman, p376)

In addition it raises the question, can there be "good" deviances? Of course there can be. If someone said that you were "much brighter that the average person," you would most likely be flattered. In the same way Mother Theresa had devoted her life to helping the "poorest of the poor," this is definitely unusual but is quite certainly not a mental or behavioral disorder. Clearly it is the maladaptiveness of an action or the inability of the body or mind to "perform its natural functions," or fulfill their natural role, that truly makes an action a disorder or deviance. (Phlipchalk, McConnell, p 481)

An alternative approach would be to compare sexual behavior against some standard or ideal. But, here again there is a problem: What standard should be used? Some say the Bible, some might turn to philosophy and some might even consider psychology the ultimate determinant. (Feldman, p 376)

None of these potential standards is universally acceptable. Furthermore, since standards often change, like the tides of the sea, with shifts in societal attitudes and new knowledge, such an approach is undesirable, and to say the least, inapplicable.  For instance, until 1973, the American Psychiatric Association listed homosexuality as a mental illness.  Then, however, it voted to change its official mind, claiming that homosexuality was no longer a mental disorder. Obviously the behavior had not been altered, only the label placed upon it by the APA had been modified. (Feldman, p376)

In summarization, distinctions between "normal" and "abnormal" sexual behavior are not easily drawn.  However, that certainly has not prevented people from trying. In effect, most seem to be seeking easy answers to a severely complicated question.

Among the models of abnormal sexual behaviors that are used to define sexual abnormality are the medical, the socio-culture, the humanistic, the cognitive, the behavioral and the psychoanalytic models. The medical model of abnormality suggests that when an individual displays symptoms of abnormal behavior it is physiologically caused. The socio-culture model suggests that people’s behavior, both normal and abnormal, are shaped by family, society and cultural influences.

The humanistic model of abnormality suggests that people are basically rational, and that they should set their own limits on acceptable and unacceptable behavior. The cognitive model of abnormality suggests that peoples thoughts and beliefs are central to abnormal behavior. The behavioral model of abnormality suggests that the behavior itself is the problem to be treated, rather than the underlying medical or psychological root of the problem. The Psychoanalytical model of abnormality, devised by Sigmond Freud, (more will be discussed in later sections about Freud’s views on human sexuality regarding normality and abnormality) suggests that abnormality stems from childhood conflicts over opposing desires regarding sexuality and aggression. (Philipchalk, McConnell, pp 536-538)

Given the difficulties with other approaches, the most reasonable definition of sexual normality may be one that considers the psychological and physical consequences of the behavior. In this approach, sexual behavior is considered, what psychologists who term, "abnormal" if it produces a sense of guilt or distress or anxiety in the individual or if it is psychologically or physiologically harmful to others.

Even a definition that relies on subjective discomfort has its obvious drawbacks, for in some severe cases of mental disturbance, or accustomness to a disorder, people tend to report feeling euphoric and on top of the world, never before having attained such happiness and inner comfort since embracing the said disorder, even though their behavior may be quite harmful.

As stated before, some behaviors that are statistically rare clearly do not lend themselves to the classification of abnormality. If most people prefer granola for breakfast and others prefer a glass of orange juice and fruit, it would appear that neither one should be deemed "abnormal." The reason behind this is what brings us, ultimately, to our final definition of abnormality. The preference of granola to orange juice and fruit is fundamentally just that, a preference.  It is considered thus for the simple fact that both foods are nourishing to the human body, they are both allowing the body to perform its natural functions of ingestion, digestion, caloric and nutritional use of and expulsion (of waste matter) of the foods. Thus, in and of itself the ingestion of the said foods will neither cause nor be the symptoms of a psychological or physiological disorder.

In 1992 Jerome Wakefield reviewed human disorders and proposed such an all encompassing definition.

"A condition is a disorder if...the condition causes some harm or deprivation of benefit to the person as judged by the standards of the person’s culture...and the condition results from the inability of some mental mechanism to perform its natural function." (Wakefield, 1992 , p 385)

Freudian Theories

According to Freud, to fully understand personality, it is necessary to illuminate and expose what is in the unconscious. Slips of the tongue, fantasies and dreams were interpreted by Freud as revealing the individual’s unconscious desires.

If the notion of an unconscious does not seem so farfetched to most of us, it is only because Freudian theory has had such a widespread influence in Western culture, with applications ranging from literature to religion. In Freud’s day, however, the idea that the unconscious could harbor painful material from which people were protecting themselves was revolutionary, for the mainstream. (Feldman, p 466) In the same way his views on the development of child sexuality and ultimately the end result of adult sexual relations could be considered more than controversial and revolutionary in this present age which has overlooked his psychoanalytical sexuality theories for the "anything goes" sexual anarchy of a Kinseyan sexual culture.

Freud believed that there were three components of personality. These were abstract conceptions of a general model of personality that describes the interaction of various processes and forces within one’s own personality that motivate behavior. These components are the "id" - the raw, unorganized inherited part of the personality, the libido - the "psychic energy" that fuels these instinctual drives, the ego - the buffer between the id and the outside world, operating on the "reality principle" as opposed to the id, which operates on the "pleasure principle," and the super-ego - representing the morality of society as presented by parents, teachers and others. (Feldman, p 467) These instinctual and conscious factors make up the personality of the individual.

Freud also provided us with a view of how personality develops throughout a series of stages during childhood. This theory is unique in focusing each stage on a major biological function, which Freud assumes to be the focus of pleasure in a given period. These stages are the oral stage - from birth to 12 to 18 months, in which an infant’s center of pleasure is the mouth, the anal stage - the period from 12 to 18 months to 3 years of age, in which the child’s pleasure is centered on the anus from both the retention and expulsion of feces, (thus accounting for the erogenous center of nerve fixations on this region), the phallic stage - the period beginning at age 3 when the child’s interest turns to the genitals and personal identification with them (this is when the individual associates and identifies themselves with the parent of the same gender out of repressed, internal sexual desires for the parent of the opposite gender), the latency period - the period between the phallic stage and the onset of puberty, where such concerns seem to be put aside, and finally the Genital stage - occurring from puberty to death, marked by the desire to engage in sexual activity, the pinnacle of which (and the endpoint of this internal, physiological drive) is vaginal intercourse.

Freud believed and hypothesized that fixation in any of these stages - with the inability to progress through them would inevitably produce certain psychological and sexual dysfunctions dependent upon the intensity, duration, and severity of the fixation. (Feldman, p 471)  

Religious Dogma

In the debate over sexual normality and abnormality, no other voice has been more avidly outspoken in the heterosexual community advocating "traditional" sexual ethics (thus excluding homosexuality) than religious communities. Some feel that the standard against which sexual "morality" should be judged against, as opposed to the psychological definitions of abnormality, is the Bible, or some other religious text or code of ethics that has been handed down through the generations to a specific culture. Judeo-Christian tradition holds that the act of homosexuality is "An abomination." In Leviticus 18:22 it states that

"You shall not lie with a man as one lies with a woman, that is detestable unto the Lord."

Christian homosexual advocates tend to claim that biblical opposition to acts of homosexuality is explained away by the fact that according to the apostle Paul; Christ "came to free us from the Law." Subsequently, they claim that morality is determined by spiritual faith alone. This is expressed in the passage "For it is by grace that you have been saved, through faith, not by works so that no one can boast." They claim that just as they no longer follow strict guidelines as far as when to eat certain foods or follow strange processes to rid a house of mold, so too should we throw off the "yoke" of the "Law."

On the other hand those maintaining the Judeo-Christian heritage of nuclear-family-oriented sexuality noted that in reference to the issue of sexual "morality," Paul stated in the book of 1 Corinthians 6:12-13 that "Everything is permissible, but not everything is beneficial. Food is for the stomach and the stomach for food but both will be destroyed. Everything is permissible for me but I will be mastered by nothing." Thus implication that their new "freedom in Christ" from the Judeo Law was the freedom to follow the mandates of Torah, (the Laws, or tendencies governing the universe), on their own. This did not imply that the Law was wrong or needless of being followed, only that it would now be followed by self-discipline not through societal enforcement.

This can be compared to child rearing where as when a child is in infancy, plastic guards are plugged into electrical sockets and child safety locks are affixed to medicine cabinet doors. However as the child grows older the "safety locks" are removed as the children are now mature enough to know better than to stick a metal object in an electrical socket since they understand the physical law that if they interrupt an electrically charged circuit with their body, then shock will result. In the same way, it is argued that the followers of Christ’s teachings were expected to understand that defying the physical laws of sexuality that their creator laid forth will result in physical detriment also. "Everything is permissible, but not everything is beneficial."

They also argue that while the climatic region of most modern day Christians, the type of houses they inhabit and their susceptablity to excessive mold spore growth has dramatically changed, the human anatomy has not (predominantly). Thus what was quite possibly a very socially applicable law for cleansing a place of inhabitance with mold growth, may now in modern society have little or no relevance and application whatsoever to those other than people living in a 3,000 B.C.E. Mesopotamian climate in similar housing conditions. However the social codes of many ancient cultures still prove applicable and effective today for the human body has changed very little. Men can still not bear children nor can women fertilize another woman’s egg, nor has either gender developed or evolved the genitalia of their complimentary gender.

Ironically and despite the fact that this religious group is often singled out as "anti-gay" or "homophobic," (which, whether or not they are is beside the point), these views of sexual abnormality do not, historically speaking, appear to be all that unique to the Judeo-Christian tradition. "The most successful social-codes in history were some of the same ones handed down in the Judeo-Christian heritage. But they are not unique to that heritage." (Reisman, p116) Those practicing Islam believe the exact same religious tenants regarding human sexual behavior, as do Rastafarians (which stems from their roots in Ethiopian Christianity). Predating orthodox "Catholic" Christianity, lies the beliefs of the early Jerusalem Church; the sect known as the Nazirenes, (literally, Nazirite-Essenes). The most prominent and influential Nazirene was Y’shua, ("Jesus," in Greek).  In Aramaic Matthew, (the oldest record of Y’shua’s life and ministry, and the source of at least three other Gospel accounts, dating to 36 C.E.), Y’shua instructs his inner circle of disciples, that conservation of sexual essence must be preserved for vaginal intercourse and reproduction. Furthermore, he stated that sexual alchemy, (the transmutation of sexual energy, or Chi, into pure spiritual essence and power), was a prerequisite for many of the mystical arts.  The tenant that homosexuality is abnormal or somehow against a higher moral law is also held by Hindus, Bhuddists, Chinese philosophies - Taoism and nearly all off shoots of these, the worlds oldest religions, philosophies and social codes.

Again, referring to Judeo-Christian tradition, the apostle Paul said in Romans 1:20 that, "The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness, since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities-external power and divine nature-have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse."

Thus implying that the "higher moral law" religions and spiritualities seek to discover and follow, is actually universal truths and natural laws that can be observed through the empirical senses and thus "enlightenment" is a product of deduction and scientific reasoning.

"A larger knowledge of history stresses the universality of these codes and concludes to their necessity. They are actually matters of health more than ‘morality;’ which is another way of expressing that health and true morality are much of the same things. (Reisman, p116)

It would be unfair to leave the topic at this.  While their theories of defining sexual morality or normalcy by the scientific examination of how the natural world operates seems adequate, impartial and fair to say the least, many of these religions ignore many fundamental aspects of human sexuality which are apparent to all who can truly see. Thus many seek comfort in negation and fulfillment in pipe-dreams of "morality" and "self-denial." Two terms which are used almost synonymous of each other.

Eastern Medicine - Yin and Yang Theory

For thousands of years now, the Chinese have held the view that sexual relations between male and female are the primary earthly manifestations of the universal principles of Yin and Yang. As such, the regard sex to be as natural and indispensable to human health and longevity as rain falling upon the fields is to plant life. They are deemed as fundamental to human life as is eating and sleeping. The intense sense of guilt attached to sexual matters in distorted Western perception of Judeo-Christian tradition is, in Chinese eyes one of the most unpleasant and incomprehensible aspects of Western Culture.

Traditional Western hypocrisy towards sex has prevented serious study of human sexuality in the modern world until only a few decades ago. Like everything else in Western philosophy, sex is viewed through the lens of dualism: it is either seen as sacred (in ceremonial matrimony) or profane (out of wedlock), with no room for anything in between.

The Chinese do not draw such distinctions between sacred and profane sex. As far as Taoists are concerned, the only important distinctions regarding sexual activities are those between healthy and balanced and unhealthy and unbalanced habits.  Throughout the animal world, Nature has fashioned the female as a superior specimen uniquely equipped for the survival and propagation of the species. According to the "Law of the Jungle," the male exists only to provide the seed for future generations and to protect the nest while the female nurses the young to maturity. Under the harsh realities of survival of the fittest, it often seems as if men are nothing more than the biological equivalent of a paper plate.

Only humans, (and a few higher primates such as orangutans), engage in sexual intercourse all year long, day and night, in any season or weather.  However, the human male, despite his inflated ego, is still subject top the same limitations that Nature has imposed upon his gender in all species.

All relevant data from the 12,000 to 8,000 B.C.E. period indicates that pre-civilized women enjoyed full sexual freedom and were often totally incapable of controlling their sexual drive. It has been proposed that one of the reasons for the long delay between the earliest development of agriculture (12,000 B.C.E.) and the rise of urban life and the beginning of recorded history (8,000 to 5,000 B.C.E.) was the ungovernable and cyclic sexual drive of these ancient women. Not until those drives were gradually brought under control by rigidly enforced social codes, (through religious heritage), could family life become the stabilizing and creative force from which modern civilization could emerge. (Reid, p 260)

Although men took over control of the family, village, economy, religion and state, they still found themselves at the women’s mercy in bed. No amount of human artifice, and denial, can mask or alter the fundamental facts of the Tao (which literally translates to "the Way" or "the Way it is"). Hence, there arose a deep contradiction between man’s control and his genuine sexual inferiority; giving rise to the battle of the sexes that still rages in bedrooms today. This also explains the deep resentment that many men have towards women, despite women’s supposed inferiority.

The foregoing observations of the Nature of Yin and Yang, (the universal principles that there are positive and negative complementary forces to everything existing in the natural world, i.e. day and night, awake and sleep, man and woman, even positive and negative electrical charges and poles of a magnet that only work when used together in harmony), make it clear that as far as sexuality goes, men and women are not created equal. Yin is abundant and enduring, while Yang is limited and vulnerable. This is reflected in the fact that, throughout the world, women tend to outlive men by a factor of 5 to 10 years.

The contrasting nature of male and female orgasm has important implications for two types of sexual activity that have aroused much controversy over the ages, and appear to be gaining in popularity today: masturbation and homosexuality.

The term masturbation, is generally utilized synonymously with the concept of solo ejaculation.  Generally speaking, masturbation is literally nothing more than self-stimulation, and is of no detriment to ones health, (male or female). However, the concept of solo ejaculation can produce results altogether different. For men, solo ejaculation represents an irretrievable and uncompensated loss of semen essence. While healthy males between the ages of 16 and 21 are veritable "fountains of semen" for who this poses little immediate threat, by the age of 25 or so, all of the old warnings regarding male masturbation begin to come true, weakness in knees, numbness in lumbar regions, emission of vital nutrients for the regeneration of hair and sharp eye-sight .

A woman by contrast may masturbate to her hearts content and only experience a taste of the fatigue which plagues her complimentary gender. At the same time most of her stores of "sexual essence" or fluids will remain undamaged and undepleted if not incessantly practiced. However not all of the female’s vaginal secretions can be reabsorbed into the walls of the vagina and if masturbation becomes practiced excessively, females can experience vaginal dryness, mild cases of fatigues and diminished libidal urges. However, the perfect balance is regarded as the ebbing and flowing of male and female essences in perfect unrestricted harmony.

The same point applies to homosexual relations; women will see few impacts physiologically, while men will see highly detrimental impacts both physiologically and psychologically. Nature has made females more passive and two passive forces, (although non-attractant), do not repel.  In this, parallel can easily be drawn to two positively and two negatively charged poles of a magnet - with negative poles only attracting and perfectly fitting with positive poles, two positives repelling and two negatives not attracting! Exactly as followers of Tao, from Confucius to Lao Tzu, have been saying for thousands of years.

The depressing phenomenon of "post-coital blues," which is experienced when males frequently ejaculate, was discussed in an interview with Miles Davis:

"Davis: You can’t come, then fight or play. You can’t do it. When I get ready to come, I come. But I do not come and play.

"Interviewer: Explain that in layman’s terms

"Davis: Ask Muhammed Ali. If he comes, he can’t fight two minutes. Shit, he couldn’t even whip me.

"Interviewer: Would you fight Muhammed Ali under those conditions to prove your point?

"Davis: You’re goddamn right I’d fight him. But he’s got to promise to fuck first. If he ain’t going to fuck, I ain’t going to fight.

You give up all your energy when you come. I mean you give up all of it! So, if you’re going to fuck before a gig, how are you going to give something when it’s time to hit? (Reid, p. 261)

What neither Davis nor Ali realized is that sexual intercourse without ejaculation prior to a "fight or gig" would improve their performance even more than if they abstained altogether. Artists and athletes rely on optimum levels of physical and mental vitality in order to perform, which is why they are even more sensitive to the loss of semen and vital energy through ejaculation. However, other men suffer from it just as severely, although they remain largely unaware of it. For example, the male tendency to fall asleep after ejaculation is a prime example of complete exhaustion. If orgasm in itself were so exhausting, then women would feel the same effects from it. However, it is the physical ejection of semen from the body - not orgasm - that harms men.

Hormones and Health

Chinese physicians pinpoint what they call the "kidney glands," (shen-hsien), as the key regulators of sexual potency, especially in men. These glands, which straddle the tops of both kidneys like hats, are called the "suprarenal glands, in Western terminology. The suprarenals, also known as the adrenal cortex, produce a variety of hormones of vital importance to various metabolic processes and biological functions.  In both male and female organisms, adrenal hormones include small but physiologically significant amounts of androgens, (male hormones), and relatively minute quantities of estrogen, (female hormones). These sex hormones, of Yin and Yang "essences" regulate the secretions of all other sex glands such as the ovaries, testes, prostate and also influence secretions from the pituitary, pineal and thyroid glands. It is the balance, not the quantity of these microscopic elements of Yin and Yang essence that counts. Insufficient secretion of androgens in the male, for example, results in the loss of sexual drive and potency. Excessive androgens in the female can cause such masculinizing effects as beard growth and breast shrinkage. Thus, a primary goal of Taoist sexual regimen is the enhancement of male and female hormone secretions in optimum balance. (Reid, p. 287)

William H. Masters and Virginia F. Johnson concluded in the 1966 publication "Human Sexual Response" that orgasm had the same basic response pattern regardless of whether the stimulation was human or mechanical. (Reisman, pp. 133, 134) This theory was expanded in "Homosexuality in Perspective" (Little, Brown, 1979), in which they proclaimed that "the inherent facility for orgasm attainment" is identical "regardless of whether the sexual partner is of the same or opposite gender." (Masters & Johnson, pp. 404, 405)

But the conclusions were invalid. Their findings were based not on the reality of actual intercourse, but on physical responses generated in the female by an electric-powered, plastic phallus - a procedure they called "artificial coition." The use of this mechanical equipment, for stimulating and photographing intravaginal response, gave the impression of objectivity. In reality, it was totally naive to suppose that this sort of sexual robotry could monitor the complexities of human sexual union, or mimic the stimulation provided by male sex organs which stimulate both internally and externally simultaneously. (Reisman, p139)

Unfortunately, the claim that sexual response is identical in any type of sexual activity has given the impression that a preference for indiscriminate behavior is consistent with our physical nature. It has inclined many people towards sexual experimentation, and a romance with promiscuity, that has been disastrous physically, emotionally and culturally. (Reisman, p. 139)

Psychology aside, the greatest threat posed to males by homosexual practices are physiological. Anal penetration, the mutual exchange of Yang sexual fluids, and frequent and uncontrolled ejaculations are the culprits. Ancient Chinese physicians noted a pathological condition called "Dragon Yang Syndrome" which occurred exclusively among promiscuous male homosexuals. "Dragon Yang" (lung-yang) is a common Chinese euphemism for the English equivalent for the word "gay." Symptoms of this ailment include weakness and fatigue, skin ulcers and boils, low immunity and impotence. Taoist physicians regarded homosexuality as a dangerous practice - for several reasons. First of all, Yang is by nature an active, aggressive force and when two aggressive forces meet, a fundamental conflict of energies and intentions results.  Male homosexuality requires that one partner yield to the other by adopting the female role, both physically and psychologically and when this practice becomes a habit it completely undermines the role of Yang in the natural order. Looking at the situation of Yang conflict at a scientific level, when the sperm from two different men are mixed together and placed under microscopic observation, they are seen fighting one another until one dies off in a disparate struggle for supremacy. (Reid, p263)

In contrast and in conclusion, Chinese Taoist tradition has regarded that a man must treasure and conserve his semen during vaginal intercourse; whenever he does omit it, the loss must be compensated by absorbing the "essence" of the female’s secretions. That is why ejaculations through masturbation, homosexual relations or the use of condoms are regarded as being especially harmful to the Yang essence and energy of men.

For a man to nurture his energy and health, he must nourish his Yang essence by absorbing Yin essence. When men and women indulge freely in sex enhancing their bodily fluids and breathing each other’s breath, it is like fire and water meeting in such perfect proportions that neither one defeats each other.

Looking back upon the broad scope of Chinese history and social development, one can not help but notice the predominant themes of "health," "sex" and "longevity," cropping up time and time again, throughout the ages. No other civilization has ever come close to the same sort of "national longevity" enjoyed by China for almost 5,000 years, free from the severe pathology and highly resistant to many of the chronic debilitating diseases that plague and sometimes completely annihilate other cultures and civilizations. It would seem that the Chinese posses some valuable secrets about health, sex and longevity from which the rest of the world stands to benefit.  However, they regard, as did Paul in Romans 1:20, that "truth" is essentially gathered through observation of the natural world through use of one’s empirical senses and wisdom. Thus, not only have the ancient Chinese stood to benefit from this information regarding the "Way" in which to live, but so too can anyone willing to take the way in which the natural world operates to heart. (Reid, p. 269)

The Kinsey Reports

Not all people throughout history have held the same, or even similar, views as did the ancient Chinese physicians. Some, such as the late Alfred C. Kinsey, believed in a sort of "wardrobe sexuality," where one mixes and matches genders, age groups, species and partners as if they were simply articles of clothing meant to psychologically enhance one’s daily wardrobe. In fact, no man in modern times has shaped public attitude to, and perceptions of, human sexuality more so than Kinsey. He advocated that all sexual behaviors, once considered deviant, were normal, while simultaneously declaring that exclusively heterosexuality was "abnormal" and a product of cultural inhibitions and societal conditioning.

Written in 1948 and 1953, Kinsey’s reports, more than any other document in history, have shaped Western society’s beliefs and understanding about what human sexuality is. They have defined what people allegedly do sexually, therefore establishing what is purported to be sexual normalcy.

This can be observed in statements such as the following: "For most of recorded history, the vast variety of sexual practices remained shrouded in ignorance. However, in the late 1930’s, biologist Alfred Kinsey launched a series of surveys on the sexual behaviors of Americans. The result was the first comprehensive look at sexual practices, highlighted by publications of his landmark volumes, Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, and Sexual Behavior in the Human Female." (Feldman, p 377)

However, few people realize that the data he presented were not, as claimed, scientific. Nor were the data representative of societal norms. It is now becoming clear that, in addition to being highly biased, Kinsey’s results may also have been fraudulent. For those reasons and because the foundation for some key Kinsey conclusions, still accepted today as scientific fact, is research conducted on human subjects illegally and against their will, (unless his research of infant sexuality was falsified), it has become necessary to call on the scientific community to reexamine Dr. Kinsey’s sex research effort.

While Kinsey held that all sex was natural, he argued that the narrow limits prescribed by "society" were unnatural. Monogamy, fidelity and heterosexuality were all limited and therefore unnatural - thus, in a sense, immoral and perverse.  When Kinsey, (1948), published his infamous "Kinsey Reports," he argued that no one is truly heterosexual (Male Report p 634, Female Report, pp. 450-451). His data didn’t support his theory. Kinsey definitively stated that heterosexuality was an unnatural, societal imposed condition. He stated that "only the human mind categorizes and tries to force facts into separated pigeon-holes" (Male Reports, p. 639).  However, he too set his one categories and agenda.  Kinsey created a 7 point scale ranging from 0 - heterosexuality to 7 - homosexuality with promiscuous, bisexuality as the "perfectly balanced" middleground.  Where a person was placed on this scale was entirely decided by the subjective judgment of Dr. Kinsey and a few personally trained staff members. Thus, Kinsey attempted to demonstrate with numbers that "normal" behavior was much more permissive than conventional wisdom had suspected. (Resiman, p 137)

The Kinsey Reports would have the masses believe that anyone deciding to forego homosexuality, for heterosexual relations, was never really homosexual; but instead only bi-sexual. Some adherents to the Kinsian myth have gone so far as to say that anyone going from bisexuality to an exclusively heterosexual relationship was never truly bi-sexual but rather "confused of their true sexuality." However, Kinsey’s "research," (which included adults masturbating to kiddie porn and supervised acts of child molestation), is hopelessly flawed; even the estimate that 10% of the population is homosexual is false. The actual percentage is now, more reasonably, believed to be closer to 2%. It would appear that Kinsey knew this, he said only that roughly 10% of the male population has had homosexual urges at one time, but that only around 4% were exclusively homosexual. A far cry from the 9 to 25% that collegiate texts such as Understanding Psychology state in a declarative manner. However, by Kinsey’s definition and categorization, this 10%, although never engaging sexually with other genders, can not be considered heterosexual.

John Gagnon has pointed out, "For ‘homosexual’ Kinsey could have substituted any form of sexual activity...He regarded it all as part of biological potential and mammalian heritage" (Human Nature, Oct. 1978). Kinsey explains that the human animal developed "exclusive preferences and patterns of behavior, heterosexual or homosexual...only with experience, or as a result of social pressure (Female Report pp. 450-451). It would make one wonder how Kinsey theorized that the human animal ever "with experience, or as a result of social pressure," "developed" the "preference" to reproduce" despite the fact that many ancient civilizations never made the connection between sex and reproduction. Perhaps we as a species were just really lucky.

However, the most profoundly shocking findings of both Kinsey Reports were almost totally ignored.  These were Kinsey’s conclusions on child sexuality. Kinsey’s "scientific research" purported to prove that children were sexual beings, even from infancy, and that they could, and should, have pleasurable and beneficial sexual interactions with adult "partners." These partners could lead them into the proper techniques of fulfilling sexual activity. (Reisman, p 65 )

According to the Kinsey team’s definition, an assault on a 9-year old girl by a 13-year old male wouldn’t qualify as child abuse even if the male had reached puberty. The case of a 13 - year old girl raped by a 17-year old male would not constitute sexual abuse, it would be "adolescent sex play" (Reisman, p 66)

The plethora of moral objections one might have against the Kinsey research aside there is nothing that appears more subjectively biased than the manner in which Dr. Kinsey went about his "surveys." As with all surveys of sexual behavior made up of volunteers, it is unclear how representative his data are of people who refused to participate in the study. Kinsey’s sample reflected an over-representation of college students, young people, well-educated individuals, urban-dwellers, and people living in Indiana and the North East. However, Kinsey’s former college friend, Dr. Terman, disagreed that the study was predominated by such individuals.

"Although he was ostensibly attempting to find out what average American males were doing sexually, Kinsey included an extravagant percentage of prison inmates and sex offenders in his interview sample.  This inevitably would distort his findings." Terman objected to the use of this population, noting that Kinsey had data on more than 1,200 persons who were convicted of sex offenses" (Terman, ibid.). Terman did not know how many were included in Kinseys 5,3000 male sample, but it turns out that perhaps most of them were. In his 1972 book, "Dr. Kinsey and the Institute for Sex Research" (Harper and Row), Pomeroy describes the efforts of the Kinsey team to interview prison inmates.

"We went to the [prison] records and got lists of the inmates who were in for various kinds of sex offenses. If the list was short for some offenses-as incest for example, we took the history of everybody on it. If it was a long list as for statutory rape, we might take the history of every fifth or tenth name. Then we cut the pie another way. We would goto a particular prison workshop and get the history of every man in the group, whether he was a sex offender or not.

Kinsey claims that he sought out "volunteers" by getting introductions from persons he befriended, whether prison inmate "kingpins" or leaders of homosexual groups (Male Reports pp. 38-49). Clearly this is not a process that would lead to a representative group of average American men.

Kinsey Fraud

The question of statistical falsification of the Kinsey Reports raises an interesting question: if these statements are false (and if they were not, they were clearly illegally performed and in violation of the civil liberties of the unwilling participants), why would Kinsey falsify them? What did he have vested in the propagation of these insidious falsehoods? What hidden agenda was he attempting to forward and what other actions did the acceptance of these forged results set into motion?

To begin with Kinsey himself was bi-sexual and also both believed in and practiced pedophilia, or as he referred to it, "Adult-child relations." These mythological justifications for what Freud referred to as "outlet sex" have set in motion the "sexual revolution," the most destructive social and cultural force affecting both the population and the health of the modern world.

The "sexual revolution," (which most universally recognize as having begun with Kinsey), has produced chaos without delivering the freedom individuals were led to expect. The sexual consequences are everyday news: teenage pregnancy, abortion, child abuse and the list goes on, seemingly endlessly. The medical consequences are equally devastating: severe venereal disease epidemics, (some unrecognized by those unaffected), with untold suffering and a cost to the U.S. economy of several billion dollars each year.  There are additional effects in terms of divorce, abandoned families, disturbed children, and all the host of social and psychological consequences that follows these traumas. (Reisman, p 84)

"Gay Rights" as we know it began in 1950 with the Mattachine Society, named after a secret medieval homosexual society. It was the first American group to call homosexuals an "oppressed minority." That some insecure heterosexuals have historically abused and oppressed homosexual segments of human society, is a known fact. It is neither this nor the respect for the rights and liberties of homosexuals that one must deny. The Mattachine Society, however, asked more than that homosexuals be left alone. They insisted that radical restructuring and changing of society must be undergone in order to accommodate their "needs." In 1953, the D.C. chapter of the Mattachine Society began intimidation tactics against the American Psychiatric Association. "Coincidentally" the APA "decided" that homosexuality was no longer to be defined as "abnormal" sexual behavior and thus removed it from their list of disorders in 1973.

Often those opposed to same gender sexual practices are referred to not only as "homophobic," but even as "Nazis" as well. This is in part due to the fact that the Nazis killed somewhere around 10,000 homosexuals during World War II. Statistics such as the above have undeniably placed the homosexual community into the same oppressed minority category as black African descendants and people of Semitic decent. Conversely, what is left out of these statistics, is the fact that Rudolph Hess, William Shirer and other prominent Nazis were openly homosexual. Hitler himself, after complaints about "men like them," declared that homosexual behavior belonged "to the private domain...private life can not be a subject of scrutiny unless it conflicts with the basic principles of National Socialist ideology." It was not until the Roehm faction of the Nazis which was founded by William Shire, became a threat to Hitler’s power, that homosexuals conveniently became a part of the enemy in 1934, with the purging of the Roehm SA faction.

Ten years ago, even the most liberal thought that it was unsuitable to discuss the topic of homosexuality with children. Nowadays, curriculum teaching about the homosexual lifestyle has been designed for first graders. Dubbed "Children of the Rainbow," the curriculum includes "Heather Has Two Mommies," "Daddy’s Roommate" and "Gloria Goes to Gay Pride." However New York school officials rejected this proposal. they felt that "trying to tell first graders about homosexuality is like trying to teach them calculus before they’ve learned grade one arithmetic."

Gay rights advocates claim that their objective is only to "rescue" children from "homophobic" though. We are lead to believe that if you oppose homosexuality in anyway it is simply because you are ignorant, uninformed, uneducated and afraid that maybe you too might be homosexual, hence the term "homophobia."

Was it simply a desire to "rescue" America’s youth when homosexual activist Michael Swift wrote in a gay rights manifesto: "We shall sodomize your sons, we shall seduce them in your schools...wherever men are together." Many argue that not all homosexual advocates are as supportive of pedophilia as is Swift. However in a Chicago meeting of the National Coalition of Gay Organizations held in 1972, point eleven of their twelve point platform called for the "repeal of all laws governing the age of sexual consent."

In an interview in the underground music magazine "Maximum Rock n’ Roll," the editor of a gay rights magazine boldly declared that anyone opposed to the goals of NAMBLA (the North American Man-Boy Love Association) is "both homophobic and ageist."

Most homosexual activists believe that "sexual orientation" - whether one is homosexual, bi-sexual or "straight" - is decided at birth and is uncontrollable. Dr. John Money, director of psycho-normal research at John Hopkins University, not only agrees but lumps pedophilia into the same category as well by declaring that: "Pedophilia is not a voluntary choice and there is no know treatment." (Reisman, p 225 ) The implications again, appears to be that "negative social inhibitions" come into play to interfere with these "sexual proclivities" of youth.

Approval of "loving sexual relationships" with non-human animals, also, does in fact fall within the philosophy of "outlet sex." With such a doctrine, there are no limits. (Reisman, p. 45) In Beyond Sexual Freedom, Dr. Socarides gives a fascinating account of how homosexuality itself came "out of the closet" - progressing from what was once considered pathology to "alternative lifestyle." At the very time when a number of psychiatrists were beginning to believe the this "disorder" involving a "serious change in human relationships" could be reversed, at least in some cases, an unfortunate chain of events was set into motion. (Reisman, p 142)

In the March 1975 issue of Psychology Today, Mark Freedman, a founding member of the Association of Gay Psychologists, urged readers to believe that homosexuality "can lead to better than average functioning and to a fuller realization of certain fundamental values." He noted the advantage for homosexual men of the ability to have sex without having "to feign love or any other emotion" and the benefits of "group sex [which] in my opinion, offers pleasures that are impossible for couples." (Reisman, 142 )

Going back a bit in history, the homosexual drive for public approval of "an alternative lifestyle" began in earnest in the early ‘70’s with efforts to portray homosexuality and its sexual practices as a valid, healthy, equally acceptable "way of life."  Homosexual activists were demanding, even then, that public school sex education courses taught by homosexuals should present homosexuality as a healthy alternative with, for example, "gay love stories" available in school libraries. (Time, Sept. 8, 1975)

In the 1960’s in response to legal and social persecution, homosexual groups began to form and turn against their oppressors, and before long against those in the medical profession who believed homosexuality was a treatable condition. In 1964, the New York Academy of Medicin’e Committee on Public Health said that "homosexuals have gone beyond the plane of defensiveness and now argue that their deviancy is a desirable, noble, preferable way of life." (Socarides, 1977, p13)

Some experts claim that the increased over-obsessiveness with sexuality in communication and entertainment medias, (along with the reality that those medias are predominately male dominated), has caused the drastic increase in sexual violence against women. The New York Times reported that more than 3,400 women will report being raped in New York City this year and thousands will be raped and never report it. The F.B.I. says a woman is raped in the U.S. every six minutes; one out of every ten women will be raped in her lifetime. (Reisman, p 91)

It is possible to deduce from a host of current social problems such as venereal disease, teenage pregnancy, child sex abuse, A.I.D.S., divorce, childhood suicide and so on and so forth, that society is experiencing a crisis in human values and is reaping the amorality that the Kinsey led sexual revolution has sewn.

Socarides vainly tried to do something about this situation by proposing to the Director of the National Institute of Mental Health the establishing of a national program for the prevention and treatment of "homosexuality and other sexual disorders." The aim was to try and aleviate "suffering to ther individual and his family and address a problem that affected the whole nation." (Reisman, p 142)

Instead the NIMH task force came out with its report, which prepared the way for the APA decision.  Prior to the APA decision, another task force on homosexuality (of the New York County District Branch of the APA), composed of psychiatrists affiliated with the major medical centers in New York City, came out with its findings on this subject. This report "documented the fact that exclusive homosexuality is a disorder of psychosexual development," and simultaneously asked for civil rights for those suffering from the disorder. It was concidered "not acceptable," however, as Dr. Socarides observed, "The message was coming through loud and clear, the only report acceptable would have been one which was not only in favor of civil rights - but one which declared homosexuality not a psychosexual disorder. (Socarides, 1977 pg 87, 89)

The APA decision on homosexuality was basically one in favor of the Kinseyan (homosexual) model of sexuality and against the Freudian (heterosexual) model.  Sigmund Freud believed that intercourse between man and woman was the "natural objective of the sex drive." He considered homosexuality to be "an arrest of sexual development." Also, unlike Kinsey, he classified certain sexual behaviors as "abnormal," referring to adult-child sex, for example, as "cowardly" and a "substitute" form of "outlet sex" for "impotent people." (Reisman, p 143 )

In the period leading up to the APA’s decision, according to Socarides, "militant homosexual groups continued to attack any psychiatrist of psychoanalyst who declared to present his findings as to the psychopathology of homosexuality before national or local meetings of psychiatrists or in public forums."

Former Kinsey colleague, Paul Gebhard was on the NIMH Task Force committee, representing what Socarides calls "the Kinsey - Hopkins faction." In his review of Donald Bayer’s "Homosexuality and American Psychology: The Politics of Diagnosis," Socarides states:

"Whatever conspiracy may have existed had its early origins in the NIMH Task Force on Homosexuality established in the late 1960’s...I was personally informed by Paul Gebhard, a member of this commission, that...psychoanalytic clinicians were purposefully left out of this committee because of our "bias"- a "bias" based upon our Freudian background. (4, 143)

"On December 14, 1973, the APA Board of Trustees declared homosexuality ‘normal.’ This decision was ratified by a small majority of APA members following a letter urging this course signed by candidates for the APA presidency. As Ronald Bayer relates, what the letter did not indicate was ‘that it was written, at least in part, by the [National] Gay Task Force...and funded by contributions the Task Force has raised. Bayer added: ‘Though each [signer] publicly denied any role in the dissimulation, at least one...had warned privately that to acknowledge the organizational role of the gay community would have been the ‘kiss of death.’" (4, p 146)

Four years after the APA decision, the journal Medical Aspects of Human Sexuality (Nov 1977) published the results of a survey taken among 2,500 psychiatrists on the subject "current thinking on homosexuality." BY 69% to 18% (13% uncertain) respondents answered that homosexuality was "usually a pathological adaptation as opposed to a normal variation." This result suggests that the political component of the APA decision process led that body to a position not supported by the majority of the psychiatric profession. (4,  145)

Quite possibly, the greatest single victory of the homosexual movement over the past decade has been to shift the debate from behavior to identity, thus forcing opponents into a position where they can be seen as attacking the civil rights of homosexual citizens rather than attacking specific (and as they see it) deviant and unhealthy behavior. (4, 146 )

These facts are merely to aid in ones awareness that what we hear about sexuality from our families, schools, religions, etc. Is often based on biased, one-sided thinking. Sexual edification should always be restricted to the private domain. Many will choose sexual anarchy over a life and practice of discipline. Words such as these should never be intended for the masses; for in truth, they are inconsequential and often none of their concern. However, for the seeker desiring only unbiased, objective and relevant facts concerning their personal edification and progression, their will always be those who have treaded the paths before them, to aid in this journey.

Non-Human Studies in Sexuality

One of the most widely used and accepted justifications for sexual deviance/abnormality is the reference to similar behavior exhibited in non-human animals. Thus a study overlooking the sexual exhibitions of non-humans would be incomplete.

Non-human animals do not all have the same emotions, any more so than humans do. Just as the behavior of animal species differs, their feeling lives do differ as well. This is often overlooked when people argue from non-human examples. "Geese mate for life," people declare. Or, "Robins kick their young out of the nest when they’re old enough to be on their own." "The dog doesn’t stay with the bitch to help raise the puppies - that’s just the way things are." This wrongly assumes that all animals are the same and therefore we can draw the same conclusions about humans. But while geese mate for life, grouse do not. The male geese mates with as many females as he can and leaves them to raise the young on their own. The female Tasmanian native hen often mates with two males and the trio raises the young together. While robins fledge at an early age, condors stay with their parents for years. Male and female wolves raise their puppies together. These differences often produce a kind of sociobiology parlor game in which people attempt to prove points about human behavior they wish to define as "natural" and "normal" for humans. But evidence that one species does one thing or feels a certain way does not necessarily mean the same for all other species thoughts, feelings and actions. Perhaps they do, perhaps not. (Masson, 1995, p. 8)

That captive and domesticated animals are in "an unnatural situation" is simply not a valid reason to treat observations of them less seriously. By this standard humans are in just an unnatural a situation.  We did not evolve in the world in which we live in now either, with its deferred rewards and strange demands, (sitting in classrooms or punching timeclocks). All the same, we do not dismiss our emotions as not existing or inauthentic simply because they do not take place in some small groups of gatherers in Africa, where human life is thought to have begun. We are ourselves "domesticated animals." Perhaps this is to account for the sexual confusion that both some human and non-human’s in captivity seem to experience. For instance, female Baboons kept together in a cage form a ridged hierarchy unlike anything seen in the species in the wild. (Masson, p. 6-7)

Chimpanzees - Humankind’s Closest Relative

While the behavior of other species should by no stretch of the imagination define normal and abnormal behavior, we can look to the rest of the "animal kingdom" for "universal truths" or underlying tendencies and principles by which the natural world seems to operate.

In studying our closest biological relative, the chimpanzee, which as far as genetic structure goes, has 95% of the exact same DNA as the human animal, no studies have proved as infamous and objectively researched than those of Jane Goodall (1972).  According to Goodall, in regards to chimpanzee sexuality:

"Many young girls will show promiscuous sexual behavior if given the chance. It maybe, in fact, that what we think of as true love - an emotion that encompasses both the body and the mind of the beloved, that mellows with time and brings about harmony of living, that removes all need in the man or woman concerned for another sexual partner - is, indeed, one of the rarest of human heterosexual relationships.

"Sexual relationships between male and female chimpanzees are in large part similar to those that can be observed among many young people in England and America today. In other words, chimpanzees are very promiscuous, but this does not mean that every female will accept every male who courts her. (Goodall, p 187)

"Regarding the normal heterosexual relationships that may develop between human beings and those that may be observed between chimpanzees. The obvious difference between the two species lies in the fact that men and women are capable of establishing and maintaining monogamous relationships both physically and spiritual of long duration, and this sort of bond is not known in the chimpanzee. Monogamy, however, is far from being the only relationship found between men and women. Actually, human males the world over tend to be promiscuous. In some cultures this is acceptable and men are permitted or even expected to have more than one wife. In other societies, where monogamy is the rule, it is never the less an acknowledged fact that unmarried and even married males will indulge in love affairs or pick up women for a night or visit brothels. (Goodall, p. 187)

"Never, however, have we seen anything that could be regarded as homosexuality, in chimpanzees. Admittedly a male may mount another in moments of stress or excitement, clasping the other around the waist, and he may even make thrusting movements of the pelvis, but there is no intromission. It is true, also that a male may try to calm himself or another male by reaching out to touch or pat the other’s genitals; while we still have much to learn about this type of behavior, it certainly does not imply homosexuality. He does this in moments of stress and he will touch or pat a female on her genitals in exactly the same context." (Goodall, p. 186)

The female Bonobo monkey is a similar case in point, whose calming and reassuring non-sexual behavior has been exploited by human beings with a hidden agenda of promoting their sexual lifestyles.

"Females display much pseudo-copulatory behavior especially genito-genital (GG) rubbing, in which the females rapidly rub their perinea together. At times of group excitement, GG-rubbing frequently occurs often followed by the participants feeding in close proximity." (McGrew, 1996, p. 177)

Is GG-rubbing sexual behavior? This depends on the definition of sexual behavior. Kano, (1989), stated that GG-rubbing is reassurance between females, and he pointed out that GG-rubbing was frequent in the feeding periods when Bonobos were forced to lessen inter-individual distances, rather than in resting periods. Female Bonobos are, on average, not homosexual. This is aside from the reality that when GG-rubbing occurs, the females are not maximally swollen. This is unheard of in any sexual contact of their species. Thus it most likely functions to decrease social tension between females, as Kano supposed. (McGrew, p. 177)  

Rape

At Wamba, all observed copulation’s are opportunistic, (Kano 1989), and they tend to be initiated by males rather than by females. Of 101 copulations, 62% were initiated by a male’s display or approach, 26% were initiated by a female’s approach or solicitations, and in 12% it was impossible to judge which gender initiated (Kano, 1989). Thus coinciding with the Taoist held belief that masculine forces, (Yang), are initiatory, instigate and are active. But how far was "initiation" intended to go?

Rape, a sexual form of aggression, has appeared to have been observed in some animals. Biologists have observed what they believe to be forcible rape in orangutans, dolphins, seals, big horn sheep, wild horses and some birds. In Arizona, an attempted rape was observed in coatimindis (long-nosed raccoon like animals). However, it does appear that, in none of these species does rape appear to be the accepted norm. (Masson, p 141)

Among waterfowl like mallards, pintail and teal, an unwilling female is occasionally pursued by one or more males, which can result in her death by drowning when many males try to pile on. She will fight back and flee, but their efforts at defense do not always succeed. In addition, the male of a pair of mallards will sometimes attempt to mate with the female immediately after what appears to be a "rape" attempt by another male. These mating attempts may not be preceded by the usual mutual displays of mated pairs.  In most cases "the female visibly struggled, but in no case did she flee." The socio-biological explanation for such marital response is that it gives the mates sperm a better chance of competing with the alleged "rapists" sperm. It sheds no light on how the male or female birds feel. Nor does such behavior provide any evidence whatsoever that this is a non-human version of the human domination oriented sexual deviance known as rape. Similarly, this does not begin to prove, even if these observations are rape, that rape is "normal," biologically determined, or reproductively advantageous for the human species. None of us can communicate with the species in question and thus have absolutely no idea as to whether the sex was truly forced or rather, the manner in which their species has heterosexual intercourse. At best the question as to whether or not rape occurs in other species is unanswerable and altogether aside from the observable fact that rape pathologically impairs the function and evolution of human society. (Masson, p. 141)

Human Sexual Relations

We have already discussed in great depth, the sexual response of human beings both female and male, homo and heterosexual. As far as monogamy as opposed to polygamy is concerned, regarding human beings, in heterosexual men it is predominantly correlated with the culture that one is raised in. In some cultures and socio-regions, polygamy is a virtual necessity for the survival of the species, (as it appears to be with most higher primates), in the said region. In others it is not only unnecessary, but it leads to population explosion, left unchecked and unbalanced, and diseases spread on an epidemic scale. For instance in pre-industrial African societies, where disease and harsh regional conditions contribute greatly to massive scale death tolls, polygamy lends a helping hand in keeping the number of offspring up. It is severely detrimental to the health of the woman if children are born unto her between intervals shorter than approximately two years. Perhaps it is for that reason that lactation, (which naturally occurs for two years), dramatically decreases the probability of conception. Many children, in the harsh African environment, die within the first year of their life. The infant mortality rate is so astronomic that mothers do not even allow themselves to develop emotional bonds with the infants until they have reached about the age of three years old. Thus, men having multiple lifetime partners benefits the species by producing more healthy babies at evenly spaced intervals, and benefits the families of females by receiving "payment" from the grooms family when their daughter is wed. Reproduction is the greatest historical African commodity.

In other cultures polygamy is an unnecessary representation of excess and promiscuity. In the West, the most common form of polygamy is found in so-called "serial monogamy," wherein an individual can divorce or break up with woman after woman, with no lasting sense of commitment. Similarly, Western polygamy generally tends to be of the sort wherein a man can maintain a sense of legitimacy to his marriage, while cheating on his wife behind her back.  This is altogether different than the traditionally practiced polygamy or "co-wifery" practiced in many Eastern, and more ancient cultures. Thus in modernist, Western culture our distorted rendition of this institution does lead to overpopulation and in our culture (and in other cultures grown accustomed to the unnecessity of polygamy) jealousy, divorce, unwanted pregnancy and what results from it - abortion, child abuse, sexually transmitted diseases and the like.

Regarding homosexual polygamy verses monogamy, according to Bell and Weinbergs classic 1978 study ,(Homosexuality: A study of Diversity Among Men and Women), most homosexuals were reporting having more that 250 lifetime partners, almost 30% were reporting 1,000 or more. On the average homosexual AIDS victims had 50 different sexual partners in the past 12 months" (Time, July 4 1983). As far as biological legitimacy for homosexual monogamy or polygamy, there appears to be none for either.

Pedophilia

Pedophilia and incest appear to be following in the social footsteps of homosexuality. Quoting sex research historian Edward Brecher, James Ramey wrote in 1979 that, "After the homosexual taboo began to break down incest as the last social taboo would soon follow suit." According to Ramey, "We are roughly in the same position today regarding incest as we were a hundred years ago with respect to our fear of masturbation." (SIECUS Report May, 1979, p.1)

Clearly, those who practice it are striving to present pedophilia as a potential "orientation" for the future. Many of its academic sympathizers are still in the woodwork, but pioneering spirits are following the same subtle path that is accomplishing the normalization of homosexuality. One milestone to watch for will be the appearance of the word "pedophobic." We haven’t quite got that far yet, expressions like "age-free affection" and similar euphemisms are beginning to appear from the lips and pens of academic sexologists. Things have gone even further in recent times. One contemporary sex education text, "Boys and Sex," (Pelican Books, 1981), by Kinsey co-author Wardell Pomeroy, suggests the naturalness of sex between adolescents and non-human animals:

"What would happen if a boy had intercourse with an animal? About one of five who lived on farms or else visit one during summer vacation have intercourse, or attempt it with non-human animals...ponies, calves, sheep, pigs, even chickens or duck. Dogs are also commonly used, but cats rarely...[Some] build a strong sexual relationship with an animal and...felt good about their behavior until they got to college, where they learned for the first time that what they had done was "abnormal."  Then they were upset and thought of themselves as some kind of monster ( Pomeroy, pp. 134-135)

According to some, no matter how bizarre an activity as long as it does not cause guilt or personal distress in the individual, then it is considered normal, healthy and natural. However such justifications for deviant sexual behavior not only justifies the habitual practice of sexual dysfunction’s but also provides justification for drug use (of any kind), self mutilation, alcoholism, gluttonously unhealthy eating habits and/or anorexia and bulimia so long as the individual feels all right about such abnormal and self destructive behavior.

Pornography

According to the center for Mental Health Services, 42% of all women who are murdered in the United States are killed by their husbands. Every 15 seconds a woman in this country is beaten and every 6 minutes a woman is raped. According to a government report 98% of rapists will not be apprehended, convicted or incarcerated! This society that we live in is at its climactic point of moral decay. But what causes it? Are rapists born or made? What makes a man feel that he has superiority over a woman?

Pornography is addictive; just as with racism and speciesism there can not be one simple answer as to what causes such injustices. There are, in fact, many things that contribute to them. In the case of sexism, and degraded perception of others, pornography is a big contributor. Pornography turns people into abusers of others for personal pleasure and profit.  Men become addicted to lustful images and then act them out in violent and sickening ways. Women become the tragic victims of these fantasies acted out.  Children become innocent victims of unimaginable molestation and perversion. Pornography subtly winds around its users an ever-tightening chain of bondage warping a potentially beautiful expression of love and tool of life into a capitalistic vice of extravagance which enslaves one to their own sexual instincts.

Following natural and healthy instincts is a beautiful thing. It helps to keep our bodies and minds in tune and in balance with the Force that gives and sustains our being. However, when any aspect of life is taken to a warped extreme and is out of balance, then drastic consequences follow. Certainly broken families, single mothers, millions of rape and molestation victims are the tragic consequences which our deviated actions have sewn.

It can be argued that sex is natural so therefore pornography is natural and healthy also. Sex is natural and in its proper context it is healthy too.  We are not speaking of sex when we say pornography, we are speaking of self-indulgent obsession. Eating too is natural, however it would seem a little odd if a culture paid to watch someone wheel out a platter of food and unveil it while the onlookers salivated and paid money just to be tantalized by the food for a brief second!

Pornography is often degrading to those who participate in it and to human sexuality in general.  It exploits and dehumanizes women as discardable tools for the satisfaction of male lust, and children are abused mentally, emotionally, physically and spiritually to satisfy the hedonistic urges of pedophilia. Women and children, when molested and cast aside, are left with indelible scars for the rest of their lives, with children often growing up to continue this cycle of hate as they are taught that this is the way things are. Real people are not seen as individuals, rather as a tool for a selfish means.  Women are looked at like the depersonalized flesh that sits packaged all nice and neatly in our local super market. Pornography is quite possibly the largest contributor to the escalating degradation of women in our culture! It teaches us to judge individuals based upon their "assets," or rather by what gratification they can provide us with.

Pornography is an oppressive industry; just like African slavery and just like animal agriculture, its industry is slavery. All are motivated by selfish interest and all cast aside their victims without a care in the world as to their well being.  Despite the fact that some participants in this cycle of oppression have come to tolerate or even in some cases "enjoy" the oppression does not down play the fact that it is nonetheless still oppression. Some African slaves learned to love their "masters" and to even "enjoy" the work that was forced upon them. Some horses can learn to seemingly "enjoy" serving their rider and can develop a kind of bond for them. The fact remains that, at one point, their spirit had to be broken, their true nature had to be stripped of them. The same holds true for pornography. Because some can masochistically turn this pain into pleasure does not change the fact that it was a situation that they were most likely "forced" into for financial reasons. Those who seek financial betterment at the expense of others, see a demand and in turn they supply this demand by taking advantage of women who might need to support a family or to pay their way through school. Pornography and greed feed upon each other. The pornography industry takes advantage of people for personal gain, regardless of the destructive impact. Both producer and seller reap huge profits due to exorbitant mark ups.  The coffers of organized crime are filled with tax-free gains from pornography sales. All the while the blossoming libido of a confused teenager or that of a "dirty old man" plays right into the hands of big business acting as psychological drug lords.

Pornography is anti-sex. Pornography promotes physical satisfaction without caring love. It is sex without responsibility, union without the obligation of consequences, and exercise of the mating privilege without reward to the immediate partner. Pornography is plain and simply out of balance. In terms of Yin and Yang sexual energies and fluids, there is no Yin sexual counterpart. The counterpart is an illusion.  Thus making pornography, (and the masturbatory fantasies that were meant to accompany it), not really sex at all Rather a cheap substitute for sex, or an "illusion" of sex. In this case pornography actually destroys the physical health of the male participant, as his "Yang Chi" sexual essence is drained of him with no female "Yin Chi" essence to complement and balance it, (thus depleting his body of zinc and a myriad of other minerals that help to compose the bodies cerebral fluid).

The question isn’t "What’s wrong with pornography," the real question is "What isn’t wrong with pornography!" Pornography destroys normal human relationships. It dictates that satisfaction of one’s own desires is all that matters. It leaves in its wake broken marriages, estranged and molested children, shattered young people and deteriorating neighborhoods. The producers, promoters and participants couldn’t care less.

What Do We Know About Sexuality Now?

From their first appearance the Kinsey Reports were, to say the least, controversial, but this was not necessarily proof that they were wrong. The sheer volume of collected and reported data was enough to ensure a reception in the academic community since nothing like it had ever been attempted before. A strong semblance of scientific reality flowed from the taxonomist turned student of human sexual behavior.  An air of authenticity was created by claims of careful sampling techniques and massive sample numbers. Yet criticism arose at once, not only from those with moral objections who expressed outrage, but also from those among professional peers such as the medical profession and statisticians (Reisman, p vii).

None the less, there was a large body of professionals who wanted to believe the Kinseyan findings and were ready to absorb his interpretations. The Kinsey Reports have become the starting points for subsequent sex research. Textbooks quote Kinsey’s findings as if they were undisputed truth. One cannot help but be reminded of the Piltdown Man fraud, or the scandalous construction of data by Sir Cyril Burt relating to the inheritance of intelligence, which set back research for a generation, as it was only later revealed to be fabricated.

With Kinsey, the issues are more serious. Very basic questions such as the true nature of sexuality, the relationship between heterosexuality and homosexuality, and the sexual development of children are all addressed in an authoritative manner. His views or morality (or amorality) are superimposed on the data which was a far cry from impartial and unbiased. As far as surveying techniques go, prison inmates with a history of sexual convictions are a far cry from a representative body of volunteers for the late ‘40’s to early ‘50’s American man.

College psychology students are given strict education guidelines regarding surveying techniques including the absence of "leading questions" which the Kinsey Reports were almost exclusively based upon.  Ironically enough, no man in modern times has shaped (or warped) public opinions, and perceptions of, human sexuality more so than the late Alfred Kinsey.  In the wake of these startling revelations of the fraudulent and biased Kinseyan "research" we are left with no other option than to question and then outrightly reject them. Similarly, we must do likewise with the theories that have been built upon their broken foundation over what has now been nearly half of a sexually degenerative century.

Kinsey concocted a "sexual orientation scale" or continuum with "exclusively homosexual" at one end and "exclusively heterosexual" at the other with bisexuals presented as the balance between the two. Kinsey argued that exclusive heterosexuality was actually a rarity and a product of repression of the true self’s sexual desires. It would seem at first glance that these theories were logical and accurate in keeping with Kinsey’s belief, (that was later shared by Masters and Johnson), of the universality, (and equality), of orgasm. That is, an orgasm is an orgasm no matter how it was obtained  or by who and is equally as pleasure invoking as any other. Again this seems to be keeping with the Freudian ethics of the id, which "exists at birth and contains all of the basic life instincts - basic needs like hunger, thirst, and the need for sex...fueled by [a form of energy] called the libido." (Philipchalk, McConnell, p 441) Freud said, "Originally, to be sure, everything was id." By this phrase, Freud meant that the id is the most primitive portion of the personality existing independently for a very short time after birth, a time when communication and cognitive skills are at the lowest stage of development where the survival of the individual creature is dependent upon the raw, unadulterated, pleasure principle following id, crying out for "immediate satisfaction" no matter what.

This seems to be keeping with the Kinseyan advocation that the sexuality of the young infant was "unspoiled" since the child could respond to any form of stimulus without judging the source.  According to one time Kinsey Institute researcher John H. Gagnon, the later development of diverse forms of sexual "preference" indicates a variety of human "sexualities" which are based upon learning experience and now are to be considered unnatural.  (Gagnon, "Science and the Politics of Pathology" Journal of Sex Reseach 23 [1]: 120-123, 1987)

What Kinsey failed to realize and Freud acknowledged is that, "Left to its greedy self, the id would soon destroy itself and the individual." However, Freud said that at a very early age the ego begins to differentiate between fantasy and reality and scans the environment for "real" gratification.  Where as before a child might satisfy the urge to be feed by sucking on it’s thumb, now it seeks for the "real" fulfillment. "The ego tries to satisfy the childish demands of the id in a realistic way." (Philipchalk, McConnell, p 442)

In the same way as the child would repudiate the inferior pleasure of "thumb-sucking" so too would it seek out "real" sexual satisfaction with the dawning of the Genital Phase, in which, biologically speaking, heterosexual vaginal intercourse simultaneously stimulates a greater number of the genital nerve receptors, (in both the male and female genitalia), than any other type of quasi-sexual act, while at the same time providing the path of least sexual resistance. Where as penetration of the vagina requires a relatively small amount of force, it does not produce unrelenting "tears" internally and requires no outside source of lubrication aside from that which is produced by the participating individual’s bodies. Statistically, 100% of sexually experienced females surveyed reported that, with the same duration and intensity, vaginal penetration is the superior form of sexual stimulation.

Biologically speaking, this is elementary. As the child grows into adulthood, with true biological adulthood beginning with the onset of puberty, the vaginal intercourse [form of] sexual stimulation becomes the epitome of sexual stimulation which the oral, anal, phallic, latency and genital period had been building up to in climax. This serves the most fundamental aspects of natural law: survival. For the act of sexual stimulation providing stimulation to the most sensory receptors, providing the least physical resistance (in healthy individuals) is the only one that can result in reproduction, the continuation for the species and thus survival.

Hence intercourse through any other orifice is a subconscious attempt to conquer or override Nature and suppress the reason of the ego in an attempt to blindly pursue the pleasure principle down the path of destruction. Thus satisfying the Freudian belief in thanatos or death-forwarding, pathological instinct.  The "disorganizing instinct that strives to destroy the integrity of the personality and to move the organism down "its own path to death."

Thus bringing us to the ancient Chinese Taoist views which deduce that in order to ensure the survival of the species, the female has been fashioned as a superior specimen uniquely equipped for the survival and propagation of the species. The female, during sexual intercourse, does not "give off" her sexual essence, (or fluids), but instead reabsorbs most of it while the male gives of his life-giving essence, (forwarding him towards "death"), for the greater good of the survival of the species. This can be observed in the fact that woman generally live about 5 to 10 years longer than do men. Among many orders of insects, such as the black widow and preying mantis, the moment the male deposits his seed in the female, for all practical purposes, his use value has been expended. He is left weak and lethargic, (more so than in humans), she promptly kills and devours him as a post-coital snack. (Reid, p. 259)

This "Law of the Jungle" provides little disaster for larger animals who engage in sexual intercourse only seasonally. However, several other species, who engage in sex all year long, day or night, in any season or whether, this can prove to be a great problem for the individual male’s health and longevity and thus another manifestation of thanatos. This too is flawed, the mentality of conventional human sexual relations, where in, the male ejaculates every time he has intercourse, regardless of his age or condition.  This habit gradually robs him of his primary source of immunity and vitality, lowering testosterone levels, growth hormone release regulation, amino acid L-Arginine and zinc, leaving him weak and vulnerable to disease while shorting his life-span. This conventional intercourse is in essence a thanatopic urge to gain a short term pleasure at the cost of the males "life."

In the words of Taoist philosopher Daniel P. Reid: "For a man to nurture his male powers, he must nourish his Yang essence (male sex fluids) by absorbing Yin essence (female sex fluids). When men and women indulge freely in sex, exchanging their bodily fluids and breathing each others breath, it is like fire and water meeting in such perfect proportions that neither one defeats the other."

He continues by stating: "A man must treasure and conserve his semen essence during intercourse; whenever he does emit it, the loss must be compensated by absorbing the "essence" (or fluids) of the woman’s secretions. That is why ejaculations through masturbation or homosexual relations are regarded as being especially harmful to the Yang essence and energy." (Reid, p 264)

Chinese physicians regarded homosexuality as a "dangerous practice" - for several reasons. First of all, masculine forces, by Nature, are active, aggressive and when the two meet, (such as two positive poles of a magnet), a fundamental conflict of energies and intentions results. Male homosexuality requires that one partner yield to the other by adopting the female role, both physically and psychologically and when the practice becomes a habit it completely undermines the role of Yang in the order of Nature. Looking at this situation from a microscopic-scientific level, when the sperm from two different men are mixed together and observed under magnification, they may clearly be observed fighting one another in a desperate struggle for supremacy.

All of that aside, the greatest threat posed to men by homosexual relations are physiological. Anal penetration, the mutual exchange of male sex fluids and frequent uncontrolled ejaculations are the culprits. Symptoms recorded by Chinese physicians of "Dragon-Yang" Syndrome include; "Weakness and fatigue, skin ulcers, low immunity and impotence." This was observed only among homosexuals.

If education in the art of healthy living is still possible, then finding a better word for "values" seems to make sense, as too often this expression is seen as the property of the "Religious Right," (often neither "religious" nor "right"). This is highly unfortunate because the concept belongs to all of society and is integral to its health and survival. It belongs to the Left and the Center also, to "non-religious" as well as the "religious." The stumbling block may be that the most successful social codes in history were some of the same ones handed down in the Judeo-Christian heritage. But they are not unique to that heritage. As Willard Ariel Durant pointed out in the book "The Lessons of History" (Simon and Schulster, 1968), a larger knowledge of history stresses the universality of these codes and "concludes to their necessity." They are actually matters of health more than "morality," which is another way of expressing that health and true morality are much of the same things (Reisman, p. 116)

What happened in the rush to sexual freedom was not the discovery of a new free and imaginative society, but throwing out the baby (necessary codes of conduct for a healthy society) with the bath water (Victorian prudery, repression and hypocrisy).  (Reisman, p. 84)

Conclusion

Clearly sexual relations between man and woman are the primary Earthly manifestations of the universal principles of negative and positive energies, (Yin and Yang). As such, sex should be regarded as natural and indispensable to human health and longevity as rain falling upon the fields is to plant life. The intense sense of guilt attached to sexual matters, in the midst of the Judeo-Christian tradition is one of the most unpleasant and incomprehensible aspects of Western culture.

Without a doubt, the results of this study have far stretching implications. As Freud and Jung argued, most forms of crime and other anti-social behavior can be traced back to some form of sexual dysfunction or frustration. Those who learn and practice sexual balance will thus be making concrete and lasting contributions to the harmony of Yin and Yang on a grand scale, promoting social order and harmony even as they promote their own health and happiness.

However, the right thing is rarely the same as that which is easily accepted or of general appeal to the masses. The tendencies, upon which reality operates, will not change and could not; even if that was what we all desired. The true Way has existed since the dawn of time; it is that which springs forth from the root of creation.

Living one’s life in accordance to the natural law, when aspects of that law are neither enforced nor encouraged by society, culture or tradition and instead opposes the mainstream "morality," is not an easy thing to do. In this case there is no penalty for perjury, no punishment for non-obedience. When the mind compromises enough to break the law laid forth all it has to do is justify the crime. To have the choice of right and wrong rest solely on an individuals shoulders, to be the only gatekeeper of their own morality is a heavy responsibility.

Fundamentally, it can be said that intercourse exists for procreation. That is to say it came into being for that purpose alone. The pleasurable component of sex, the natural attraction between men and women and the instinctual drive to engage in sexual activity are to ensure the continuation of the cycle of life. Sexual attraction to other species of animals, prepubescent children and the same sex are obvious deviations from that natural order of things where sex is maintained in a balance, existing within a framework of the life-cycle.

So too deviated, is the obsessive, addictive and domination oriented qualities of much heterosexual sex, where the incessant drive to engage in intercourse is not rooted in the instinctual urge to reproduce and the internal drive pushing one to achieve oneness, (completing the balance of energies), with their natural counterpart. Rather, They are based upon self-centered desire where each partner sees the other as merely a tool for their own gratification - having no real connection to each other and no place in the grand scale of things.

Thus, it is imperative to remain not against sexual relations, but rather against imbalance and excessive behavior; whether in the realm of sexuality or any other facet of human existence. The intense sense of guilt attached to sex, that leads many to find comfort in negation and self-denial as they claim they "lost" their virginity rather than claiming to have "given" it to their partner, is usually due to cultural standards and biases or to one’s body warning them to cease behavior that is unbalanced and destructive. For example, "post-coital blues" is the male’s body attempting to show the man that his destructive behavior, that excessive depletion of his sexual essence, must stop. For, if he does not, he will further the irreversible detrimental side effects to his health, caused by such activity.

The sexual drive, the physical attraction between man and woman, and the resulting sexual activity, are completely natural feeling and activities which are found in all animals. The sexual drive is one of the purest instincts we have left, when unadulterated by our surrounding societys, often false, value systems. Sexuality is not about false human perception of law and morality. It is about living by the natural law - where morality is dictated by the natural order of things and maintaining and realizing the state of perfect equilibrium, that is possible within each of us.

It has been made clear through the observations and analysis of Kinseyan "research" and of the inevitable biases of the religious right and the "gay rights" movement, that these detractors of harmonious sexuality have made outlandish statements in a fleeting attempt to shift both the attention and guilt away from their own detrimental acts, onto those who should have absolutely no need to worry about, nor to defend their sexuality and practices.

Whether the goal is conception or prevention, the key is control. In both cases, human nature and "mother" Nature should be harmonized towards the desired goal without going against the grain of the true path. Clearly, we have seen the necessity of redefining the terms "normal" and "abnormal" as there can be either good or bad deviations from the norm. Our actions and lifestyles should be based upon and constructed around living by the natural law.

Despite what sex has become in today’s society, (that strives to segregate itself from the natural order), it originally came into being for the purpose of procreating the species. However, sex for pleasure is as natural, and potentially healthy, as is eating for pleasure. While eating is to ensure proper nourishment of the body, so too is sex to ensure the continuation of the species. However, if we have already attained the RDA requirements for Vitamin C, (for instance), and have a craving for an orange, it would be insane to deny ourselves that which is of no detriment, in the name of "self-discipline" alone.

Women and men are the natural counterparts of each other and are the only pair that fit a match while maintaining such an equilibrium of energies. Not Yin alone, not Yang alone. Yin and Yang, female and male.

Our abstinence from certain behavior should not be based upon abstinence for the sake of itself. Behavior should not be rejected because it may hold pleasure for some; it should be rejected on the grounds that it is unnatural, unhealthy and self-destructive. Pleasurable activity which is physiologically and psychologically healthy, must be embraced. Discipline is only of worth when it helps one walk free of the harmful ways of self destruction. To allow that discipline to deny us even that which is "normal" and good, would be to let the darkness that lurks within the human psyche, (the fear of living that leads many to find comfort in negation and self-denial), win; for in our struggle for purity and a better world, we would have stopped living ourselves.

Normality and abnormality must be defined in terms of idealism, with the standard for perfection and normality lying in behavior that coincides with natural law. That being: behavior that does not cause emotional or physical distress to others or the individual on a psychological and/or physiological level, which (at least initially) seems to be the causation of guilt and remorse which can only be overcome and (eternally) suppressed by the self or surrounding influences Jerome Wakefiled’s definition seems to fit best: