ABSTRACT
Everyone experiences the sexual act as a question of morality. Having examined how hostility, mystery, risk, and revenge can increase excitement. Placing hostility in the center of these definitions puts me somewhat at odds with those who explain sin in sexual pleasure only as a cultural-historical phenomenon. It is hard in enlightened circles these days to defend the idea that sex and sin are linked. Is there, then, no logical basis for the badness, strangeness, willfully motivated corruptness, unwholesomeness, and unnaturalness that, sadly, people feel in their sexual excitement? Studying perversion shows this mechanism at work and has led author to more understanding of the lesser aberrations, which are usually referred to as “normal sexuality.” In perversion and “normal sexuality” authors have found several themes: as the sexual act unfolds, fantasy risks are run that are experienced as being surmounted; inside the sexual excitement are desires— conscious and unconscious— to harm others to get revenge for past traumas and frustrations.
