Li Yinhe talks about sex

Chapter 8 Anti-Sex and Moral Superiority

In this world, people are different in thousands of ways. Some people have low sexual desire and some people have high sexual desire. This is not a big deal, but people with low sexual desire feel that they are morally noble, and formulate policies and regulations according to their own sexual desire and moral standards. To inspect books, newspapers, magazines, and audio-visual products according to one's own standards, and to punish others according to one's own standards, is not only unreasonable, but also a serious problem.

Why do some people get so angry when they hear the word "sex", as if they are facing a big enemy?This is a question that has puzzled me for a long time.It is not particularly surprising that some people, because of long-term repression, become terrified and terrified when it comes to sex.However, the anger that came from nowhere was shocking.

I know an old aunt, she is a "three-eighth style" veteran cadre, a good friend of my mother, and she is probably 80 years old now.Usually our two families have a good relationship. She sometimes visits my mother and is very kind to us juniors.Suddenly one day, I received a long letter from this old aunt, scolding homosexuality and sexual descriptions in literature.I wrote back and introduced her to some of the big thinkers and academics in general about homosexuality.However, my letter obviously did not convince her.It is said that she also submitted her long essays everywhere, but all submissions were rejected, which made the old aunt very frustrated.

There is a strong anti-sex sentiment in the old aunt's letter.Where does this anti-sexual outrage come from?Sex is a natural need of human beings and a reasonable desire of physiology and psychology.Generally speaking, as long as it is not forced, sex should be a good thing for people.Why are some people so bitter and gnashing of teeth at something that is at least harmless or beneficial?

Although the physiological structure of people is similar, there are differences in the strength of human sexual desire.Those with weak libido either never liked sex, or suppressed libido for a long time, suppressed and suppressed, and the desire disappeared.If the motivation for this repression happens to be a certain belief or idea, the person concerned will develop a sense of moral superiority-he can do things that others cannot do.A sense of moral superiority can easily be transformed into a kind of moral indignation. I can't understand those who still retain desires, and even hate those who have stronger desires.I think that's where most of the anti-sexual outrage comes from.

Moral superiority manifests itself in an aversion to what ordinary people think, want, love, and do.Sex is such a thing.Even small people in the market can do this, and they often talk about it, enjoy it, and devote themselves quite a lot.People with a sense of moral superiority therefore have a special disdain for sex.In their minds, everything that everyone likes must be of a low level.And the so-called high morality means thinking what ordinary people don't want, and doing what ordinary people don't.

There are also some anti-gender people who are not really moral people in terms of consciousness and behavior. They did this "ugly" thing, but with a deep sense of guilt in their hearts, they feel like a thief, Steal something that doesn't belong to you.Such a person has an ambiguous feeling of accomplice to others talking and doing the same things.Therefore, they are particularly intolerable when others openly talk about or do things they do secretly.Anti-sexual outrage stems in part from this psychology.

In this world, people are different in thousands of ways. Some people have low libido, while others have high libido.If these morally superior people happen to hold power, the problem is even more serious.They formulate policies and regulations according to their own standards of sexual desire and morality, inspect books, newspapers, periodicals, and audio-visual products according to their own standards, and punish others according to their own standards. This is not only unreasonable, but also a serious problem.

The suppression of sexual speech and publication is often an integral part of the general suppression of the citizens' constitutional rights to free speech and the free press.Because of this, there has been an upsurge in sexual discourse and publishing both after the collapse of the former Soviet Union and after the lifting of martial law in Taiwan.There will be pornographic content and locked channels in TV programs, and the programs broadcast in them are all in violation of our country's current "Criminal Law" (provisions related to obscenity).

my country's "Constitution" stipulates that citizens have the right to freedom of speech and freedom of publication, but the provisions on obscenity in the "Criminal Law" and the definition of obscene publications by the administrative system are obviously contradictory to the provisions of the "Constitution".The coexistence of contradictory legal provisions can only show that we are still far from the standard of a legal country.

At present, the social foundation of my country's obscenity inspection system is the old aunt I mentioned earlier.It is all right for them to demand and criticize others with their own moral standards, and they have the right to express such opinions.However, it would be wrong for a country to make laws based on the moral standards of some citizens and use these laws and regulations to punish citizens who hold another moral standard.Because the latter also have the right to express their opinions, as well as the rights to freedom of speech and the freedom of the press, which are protected by the Constitution.

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