Anonymous for now: “I wouldn’t have posted this if I hadn’t found the overall tone to be calm, courteous & genuine and the topics to be of interest.”
Would you characterize my commenting as detracting from the tone of calm and courteous (though I have been quite genuine)? Would you suggest amending this?
Also of interest circa the discussion of male experience:
Nobel prize winning neuroscientist Eric Kandel relates in his memoir “In Search of Memory” that his first sexual experience was at the age of 9 with the hose-maid ’Mitzy.” He speculates that his parents hired her to do it, since it was a common practice in Austria at the time to hire a female helper for you almost-pubescent son to prevent him from becoming a homosexual. I’m not advocating such a practice for the purpose of preventing homosexuality, but might it have other useful functions in male psychological development? Does anyone have any arguments for or against this?
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