GAMES FOR PERVERSE COUPLES – INTRODUCTION
Games for perverse couples abound both in life and in literature. In days of yore, such games were played secretly in bedrooms, back alleys, and basements. Today, one encounters more and more couples engaging openly in perverse games, such as those advertised in the “adult classified” pages of newspapers. They are referred to as (S&M), role-playing, and sometimes even sex therapy!
In perverted sex, sexuality is turned into an experience whose aim is no longer primarily the expression of love and tenderness and/or the reproduction of the species. Rather, it is concerned with discharging aggression and assuaging envy, guilt, and fear, as well as with repeating compulsively certain sexual dramas that are rooted in unresolved childhood sexual experiences and conditioning. Children who are molested by an uncle or aunt often grow up to be pedophiles themselves. In molesting little boys or girls, they will not only reenact what was done to them but also will discharge repressed anger, displacing it onto their new sexual objects. A boy who is dressed in a girl’s clothing by a mother or aunt who was disappointed to have a male child often will grow up to be a transvestite. By wearing women’s clothing, he both reenacts his childhood conditioning and discharges aggression (by defying convention), castration fear (hiding behind a skirt), and envy of women. Children who are severely punished or humiliated for some kind of infantile sexual play will grow up to enjoy sadomasochistic sex. They will both reenact the abusive trauma of their childhood and discharge repressed aggression onto their new objects. (The favorite fantasy of couples who engage in S&M is for one of them to play the punishing parent and the other to play the naughty child.)
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