SYNOPSIS OF CHAPTER V: VARIETIES OF SEX-SCRIPTS
Human sexual fantasies show endless variety.
Sexual imprinting seems able to put almost anything into a sex-script.
The most unusual imprinted sexual fantasies get attention first.
But studying strange fantasies will advance our understanding of all
sex-scripts.
Heterosexual/homosexual is the most basic
division of sex-scripts
—a division based on the sex of one’s fantasy sex-partner.
Sometimes famous people get imprinted into one’s sexual fantasies
—movie stars, popular singers, politicians, & other charismatic
persons.
Some imprinted sexual fantasies call for ever-new partners,
which is one reason some people’s sex-lives become promiscuous:
Old, familiar sex-partners do not ‘turn them on’ as much as strangers.
Others find themselves imprinted on family members
—or persons who resemble a father, mother, sister, brother, etc.
Usually the race of one’s fantasy sex-partner
is one’s own race.
But sometimes the script calls for members of another race or ethnic
group.
Some sex-scripts call for particular objects
to be present
or for the action to take place in a specific ‘stage setting’
—with special clothes, gestures, & words.
When punishment or humiliation is part of the
stage action,
we can sometimes trace the imprinting back to childhood trauma.
What was originally a painful experience for the child
became an erotic experience when it entered the child’s sex-file.
Some people discover that their sex-scripts
contain magical words.
When these are spoken, something special happens in their bodies.
These sexual responses are called “paraphilia”
when odd objects, settings, or words have become sexualized.
Some sex-scripts call for behavior outlawed by
most societies,
for instance, fantasies that call for children as sex-partners
and scenarios in which the sex-partners are killed.
Rape, however, is the most common sexual fantasy of outlawed activity.
But as we understand more fully sex-scripts
urging criminal behavior,
we can devise more enlightened responses to such problems.
Criminal sexual behavior probably cannot be changed by rehabilitation
because the special impetus behind sex-offenses differs from other
crimes.
One possible treatment for sex-offenders is
‘chemical castration’
—using sex-hormones to return the offender to a pre-pubertal state.
Some criminals agree to be ‘de-sexed’ so that they lose all interest in
sex
rather than spend the rest of their lives behind bars.
Chapter
V
VARIETIES OF
SEX-SCRIPTS
by JAMES
PARK
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Created
3-16-2008; Revised