Recent researches on sex drive reveal that a normal male or female has the same half-dozen hormone only in differing amounts. It is Testosterone that fuels sex drive in men and estrogen in women. One researcher, however, found that those women who were given a hormone additive had a dramatically higher level of desire and arousal. Also they had more energy and a greater sense of well-being.
Desire is the birth of creativity. The table of thoughts is also the table of desire and creativity, which also house sex drive. Therefore sex drive and creativity are woven together on the same table.
Researchers recall that thinking about sex is the reason for arousal. The same way thinking prompts creativity. If thinking prompts creativity and sex, it means that excess of one is at the expense of the other.
Libido, which is the Latin word for desire is the psychic and emotional energy, associated with instinctual drive; it also means sexual desire or manifestation of the sex drive. Psychic, don't forget is the ability to know what others are thinking and what will happen in the future. And instinctual, the power to react based on feelings. Libido therefore has in it psychic, emotional and instinctual energy.
The woman has the three. But the separation and proper usage is her problem. Because she is more emotional than rational. She picks the emotional energy at the expense of the creative energy, the psychic and instinct. She does not know that imagination and intuition are vital to good science and that women's intuition is the most accurate.
In psychoanalytic theory, libido, is the energy of the 'id' or a major portion of the unconscious mind, responsible for acts of creation. According to the theories of Austrian psychoanalyst, Sigmund Freud, libido is the sex instinct, which can be re-channeled as artistic creation.
Sex drive is real, everybody that is normal should naturally burn with it. It is a sign of being alive and healthy. But these drives can be re-channeled to more creative acts other than sex.
How? When extensive amounts of creative energy (libido) is exhaled on other tasks (like practical thinking, creativity) there will be little energy left to fuel the sex drive. Consequently, the individual will have less drive or desire for sex. Note; it can't be totally eradicated but it can be subdued to a controllable limit.
It is only unmarried singles who are supposed to practise this. The woman is supposed to channel her libido to creative works when she is unmarried and channel it for sex drive when she is married. But the reverse is the case today, the unmarried woman wants to sleep with and flirt their sexuality around all men and the married woman wants to do the entire house chore. This is why most marriages have problems. When a woman can't respond to her husband, he will have no choice but to seek it in those amorous singles who instead of curbing their sex drive have let it flow in service of all but hope to curb it when married. Wrong theory, wrong application.
- posted on 11/05/2009
¡°If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it's because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body (and with it your own voice), and that's the most revolutionary insight of all.¡±
The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I'm thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but of Anais Nin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and of course Sappho. You cannot divide creative juices from human juices. And as long as juicy women are equated with bad women, we will err on the side of being bad."
¡ª Erica Jong
- Re: Every Woman is an Inventorposted on 11/05/2009
There is still the feeling that women's writing is a lesser class of writing, that what goes on in the nursery or the bedroom is not as important as what goes on in the battlefield, that what women know about is a less category of knowledge.
Erica Jong
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