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. 
  
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 Max Demian 
  
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