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(9,090 posts)the last 100,000 years and some gene pools have been selecting for it to increase the authoritarian tendencies, fearfulness, intolerance of 'others', etc that could provide a competitive advantage in the absence of democracy - especially in tough times. it's not human nature, but what the human brain does with the diverted 'sex energy'. it may be it's just a quick diversion for people who are more creative and or emotional.
it got worse as humans began to delay the age of reproduction, and use religion, etc to repress sex and tie it with guilt - that's what wilhelm reich was getting at in his paper "the mass psychology of fascism"
that's like when columbus met the natives.... pre sowb vs post/bad sowb
someone like trump seems a classic extreme eg. getting that sex energy stuck in the wrong places, using it to fuel his greed, depriving the emotional creative side. it probably caused a lot of fear until he learned to rationalize the fantasy world in which he is king. the book describes how rationalizing the denial of reality, such as when simplifying the world into absolutes to create certainty, it requires creativity and that's when some of the trapped sex energy finally escapes to the pleasure centers. other ways to make the connection and produce that pleasure is to force emotion - maybe in others - by being cruel, violent, etc. otherwise there might not be much pleasure at all.
In Sex On the Wrong Brain, author Ard Falten suggests that right handed humans are diverting sexual impulses to the wrong side of the brain. The book explains how sex on the wrong brain, or sowb, magnifies fear and promotes greed and authoritarianism, which could provide competitive advantage in the absence of democracy.
The book presents sex on the wrong brain as an undiagnosed mental disorder that has shaped human development for hundreds of thousands of years and as a unifying theory that can stimulate new research in mental health, psychology, neuroscience, and genetics, with broad implications for how we interpret human history.
The book describes how sex on the wrong brain increases greed, fear, absolutism, authoritarianism, racism, misogyny, terrorism, and even sexual dysfunction. Symptoms vary widely on individual and societal levels, affected by libido, behavior, culture, heredity, and even by gender.