SYNOPSIS OF CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCING THE SEX-SCRIPT HYPOTHESIS
How shall we understand our sexuality?
We experience within ourselves urges we do not fully understand.
We do not know why certain things ‘turn us on’
and why other things have no sexual impact on us.
We also notice that sexual responses vary greatly from person to person.
Why is there so much variety in something so basic as sex?
This chapter introduces a brand-new theory of
human sexuality.
The sex-script hypothesis conjectures that we have all been imprinted
with particular sets of fantasies, stories, scenarios, & sex-objects
that we carry around with us in our heads.
These stories profoundly shape our sexual interests, arousal, &
orgasms.
We did not genetically inherit our sex-scripts
from the
other animals.
Thus we cannot fully understand human sexuality by studying animal
sexuality.
Nor did we learn our sex-scripts the way we learn to drive a car.
After we have been imprinted with our basic sexual fantasies
(a mysterious process which seems to take place
at critical periods during our first two decades of life),
we do learn how we are supposed to behave sexually.
But such learning does not account for our sexual responses.
Thus the various social theories of human sexuality are not complete.
The sex-script hypothesis might explain our
‘sex-drives’.
These mysterious urges and impulses might be quite strong in our minds.
Some people find their ‘sex-drives’ overwhelming.
And sometimes our ‘sex-drives’ seem out-of-character for us.
We do not understand our sexual interests and responses.
From the more mature perspective of our adult selves,
we are sometimes puzzled or even dismayed by our sexual preoccupations,
surprised by some of the things that cause sexual arousal in us,
& intrigued by what passes thru our minds when we have orgasms.
Sometimes lust pulls in ways we do not understand.
We did not choose our particular set of sexual
responses.
So somehow we must investigate our ‘sex-drives’.
Even tho we did not create these fantasies and urges,
and even tho our arousal might seem overwhelming,
ultimately we are always responsible for our sexual behavior.
The sex-script hypothesis is a new model for
human sexuality.
This new theory will be tested and revised over the next 50 or 100 years
of creative speculation and scientific research in sexology.
Chapter I INTRODUCING
THE SEX-SCRIPT
HYPOTHESIS by
JAMES
PARK
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Created
3-16-2008; Revised 12-11-2009
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Sexual
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