tortoise
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Hester said:i think brain chem with puritanical mores is a great mix! that's why i've preferred to date guys who grew up catholic. there's something highly erotic about seeing a man with so much lust that it overcomes that much guilt and shame. nasty, dirty men-whores, those altar boys. love 'em.
sex is so much better with a healthy dose of sin.
Which is why I said "can be." I was speaking of the sociopathic extreme, wherein shame turns pathological. If thinking about a truly unspeakable act becomes every bit as shameful as doing it, the boundary between thought and action becomes very… permeable. Further trouble can obviously arise if one considers something like homosexuality to be every bit as unspeakable as pedophila (to use two random examples).
Shame in small to moderate doses can be fun as an arbitrary obstacle to overcome, but too much can be toxic. Shame has an LD50.