ABSTRACT
J. P. Rushton and A. F. Bogaert begin with asserting racial differences in “sexual restraint” and “inhibited sexuality.” That “restraint” and “inhibition” are good is established in the first paragraph of their article with a nod in the direction of Freud who, we are told, “noted a positive correlation between inhibited sexuality and the production of culture”. This emasculation of Freud’s assertion, as well as the fact that it initially applied to individual differences, are brushed under the carpet by spuriously arguing from individual to group without any theoretical justification. It should be noted in passing that this is in keeping with all bourgeois social theory based upon methodological individualism.
