
| Msg # 12570 of 12811 on ZZUK4448, Thursday 7-30-25, 6:42 |
| From: MAX DEMIAN |
| To: THE TODAL |
| Subj: Re: Board of Deputies to complain about |
From: max_demian@bigfoot.com On 30/07/2025 12:19, The Todal wrote: > On 29/07/2025 18:00, GB wrote: >> So, when Mr Good, the English teacher, told a class of 12 year olds >> that "Using a condom was like washing your feet with your socks on", >> you are adamant that he was teaching them to have unprotected sex? >> >> I must say that I'm not so sure about that. > Our English teacher once told us a little about Sigmund Freud's > theories, which was not relevant to the set book we were discussing, but > was an agreeable diversion and, of course, since none of us had read > Freud's work we were inclined to believe our teacher's interpretation. > > Our teacher said how distasteful it was to read that our teacher's son > might yearn to have sex with his mother and see his father as a rival > for sexual favours, despite the son not yet having reached puberty. I > think it was intended as a way of encouraging us to question what we > were told by eminent experts in their field and to apply common sense. > BUt we may have been too young to understand the lesson.€€ There is a lot > in Freud that has been discredited, especially his belief that when > young women described being sexually molested by their father it was > surely a fantasy and not a real life experience. One of Freud's more bizarre theories would be the concept of "penis envy", where he believed that very young girls (aged 3-6) were envious of boys' penises and the additional pleasure they must derive from them compared to their own organs. The mind boggles. -- Max Demian --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05 * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2) |
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