(May 15, 2015 at 12:26 pm)MrNoMorePropaganda Wrote: ... Are both of these groups, Catholic priests and Muhammadan men, sexually repressed? ... And I think it is because of the their shared sexual repression. ...
I think you are basically right about that. Sexual repression causes all sorts of problems, because sexual desire tends to be a very strong drive in people. When people are sexually repressed, they tend to express their sexuality in other ways than they would otherwise.
I remember hearing a woman talk about her experiences going to a Catholic school as a little girl. One of the priests would bounce quarters off of his erect penis, and if the little girls caught the quarters, they could keep them. (This was back when you could actually buy something for a quarter. And it is far from the worst thing a Catholic priest has ever done, though obviously he ought not have done that.) Now, that is probably not the sort of behavior that someone would naturally do, nor is it anything I would ever have dreamed of doing. But then, I am not a sexually repressed Catholic priest.
Basically, with sexual repression, one tends to get all sorts of strange behaviors. One should expect to find (if one can delve into things done in private) all sorts of strange things among people who are sexually repressed. This is one of the reasons sexual repression is a bad thing.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
