Supress sexual desire?
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It used to be called a job. Anything that constitutes work. Even for those who are in the profession, as it were, as they seem to be (or so I'm told) utterly bored.
Sure... But, why would you want to?
It's just part of being human.
Now "acting" on every desire is a different story...
You can wind up a daddy, or beaten up, in jail, or dead...
Or, any combo of the above, depending on the circumstance.
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temporarily yes, but it comes back
Why don't we examine the definition of 'suppress'?
'Suppress' is a word of broad application.
I would suggest that our upbringing and societal pressures endeavor to teach all of us to suppress or control inappropriate sexual desire.
The mind is quite capable of restraining the body from pursuing action on sexual desire or impulse. With training, the mind can be conditioned to ignore thoughts of a sexual nature and the body can likewise be desensitized to physical stimulation.
Sexuality varies by individual and age and some persons have intense physical desire while others may have little interest.
While I consider it entirely possible (and normal) to suppress sexual desire, I do not know if it is possible (or desirable) to eliminate the feeling thereof completely.
The acting upon must be suppressed. Experiencing the sensation, in an appropriate venue, is a normal human activity, in my opinion.
Perhaps it is easier to avoid showing arousal for a woman, as our physical state is not quite as obvious as that of a man. I speak from experience, as I have been endowed with health and healthy appetites of all manner and have spent my life in learning to master them.
I so love frozen chocolate yogurt but must show restraint, lol....
'Suppress' is a word of broad application.
I would suggest that our upbringing and societal pressures endeavor to teach all of us to suppress or control inappropriate sexual desire.
The mind is quite capable of restraining the body from pursuing action on sexual desire or impulse. With training, the mind can be conditioned to ignore thoughts of a sexual nature and the body can likewise be desensitized to physical stimulation.
Sexuality varies by individual and age and some persons have intense physical desire while others may have little interest.
While I consider it entirely possible (and normal) to suppress sexual desire, I do not know if it is possible (or desirable) to eliminate the feeling thereof completely.
The acting upon must be suppressed. Experiencing the sensation, in an appropriate venue, is a normal human activity, in my opinion.
Perhaps it is easier to avoid showing arousal for a woman, as our physical state is not quite as obvious as that of a man. I speak from experience, as I have been endowed with health and healthy appetites of all manner and have spent my life in learning to master them.
I so love frozen chocolate yogurt but must show restraint, lol....
elte
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I'm gonna say, indeed, suppress it if you can find worthy pursuits as a replacement since I say that sexual drive is a tyranny of nature. Also, in mankind's future, I'm for doing away with the sexes altogether. Now, I can look back on sex matters as having been a loss of time that I could have used to do something that matters. I'm not intending to be sensational or getting a rise here because I really look at things and say to myself, will something I'm doing be praise-worthy in a future history book? So much we do really doesn't matter and what is popular or faddish in a culture is least likely to make a difference for the good.
Because a desire may be damaging in other ways
Fraggle Rocker
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I'm not clear about what you meant. But since we all know from personal experience that it's possible to not act on our sexual desire, I'll assume you meant repress. This word can mean to actually deny, reduce or control the feeling of desire itself.
We all have a modest ability to distract ourselves from something that arouses desire, to count backwards from 1000 by 7's, to imagine our mother standing in the room and glaring, or to imagine that the person we desire is someone else whom we don't desire. This can work for a few minutes, until we catch our breath and start to simply suppress the desire and behave like a civilized person.
Some people can repress their feelings for longer time periods, but it's not clear that this is healthy. They're stuffing them down into a deep dark place where they'll fester. One day they may come bursting out, having changed under pressure into something evil. You might lose your composure and say something inappropriate that reduces people's respect for you. Or you might actually act on your desire, which can get you into a lot of trouble unless you have the good fortune to have found someone who secretly desires you too--and that only happens in movies anyway.
Yogis, etc., claim to have found the way to repress feelings they don't want. Perhaps it's true.
We all have a modest ability to distract ourselves from something that arouses desire, to count backwards from 1000 by 7's, to imagine our mother standing in the room and glaring, or to imagine that the person we desire is someone else whom we don't desire. This can work for a few minutes, until we catch our breath and start to simply suppress the desire and behave like a civilized person.
Some people can repress their feelings for longer time periods, but it's not clear that this is healthy. They're stuffing them down into a deep dark place where they'll fester. One day they may come bursting out, having changed under pressure into something evil. You might lose your composure and say something inappropriate that reduces people's respect for you. Or you might actually act on your desire, which can get you into a lot of trouble unless you have the good fortune to have found someone who secretly desires you too--and that only happens in movies anyway.
Yogis, etc., claim to have found the way to repress feelings they don't want. Perhaps it's true.
You could try thinking as vividly as possible of something disgusting, such as dog crap or vomit, every time you feel sexual desire. That's what I do anyway.
I'd argue that they could have, but chose not to.
They did for years. Then some flipped a switch an chose not to. Hmmm nope don't buy it. They are similar to Jerry Sandusky. They couldn't help themselves. They were presented with a opportunity. An they took it ( Mainly against ones will ).There for they could not suppress it. In my view, an opinion, Repo.
You could just cut stuff out.
Google the phrase 'the skoptic syndrome'.
Have fun.
Google the phrase 'the skoptic syndrome'.
Have fun.
Or this: 'Kalin, 1979'.
Yet those priests are now located somewhere else taking advantage of other children while Sandusky goes to prison for doing the same thing. I do not think that letting priests go free to molest more children elsewhere is a very smart nor legal thing to be doing.