ABSTRACT
The atavistic aversion therapy against masturbation that the media inflicted upon young people in their treatment of the arrest of Paul Rubens for alleged “indecent behavior” in a Florida adult movie theater is a particularly deplorable reminder of the willful illiteracy of sexual diversity promulgated as the national morality, in this case tantamount to criminal neglect and reckless endangerment. Masturbation in porn theaters is tradition in gay male communities that provided one model for the self-conscious eroticization of safer sex practices. The autoerotism of prenarcissistic infantile sexuality originally “attaches itself to one of the vital somatic functions,” a tendency epitomized by the oral phase “in which sexual activity has yet been separated from the ingestion of food”. The socialization of young boys into normative heterosexuality depends largely on a terrorized discovery of sexual difference. Resituating the heterosexual anaclitic object-choice in its earlier developmental history in Freuds thought brings to light the implicit associations with male heterosexuality and the self-preservative instincts.
