Abstract

Our culture is awash with lascivious “sex.” Most of us handle it by “good manners” which means you pretend you did not see or hear what you saw and heard, but that does not help others, especially youths, who are smitten with the tidal wave of sexual titillation. To whatever presented, one can express anger, shock, disgust and religion (or good manners), but none of that works very well to defuse the contagiousness of the ideas, impulses and imitations of presented sexual actions. In my psychiatric practice (for children, adolescents and adults), I try to defuse what I call “sexual craziness” i.e., that almost universal bewildering surge of intoxicating excitement which occurs especially when the immature are exposed to sexual matters. I do this by semi-crude smiling mockery coupled with semi-dignity biological accuracy. Such generally attenuates the sexual excitement and brings people to “sobriety” for want of a better word. This article was written because “sex” as commonly presented does not deserve the reinforcement of pure dignity because as commonly presented it is destructive of development and productivity

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