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		<description><![CDATA[[en] Many human activities began as social ones and were shared and with time got transformed into individual and personal ones. This happened especially with the media and technologies. Two examples: transportation, where cars (which are mostly used as a means of personal transportation) imposed themselves on other forms of travel; and the media, where [...]]]></description>
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<p>Many human activities began as social ones and were shared and with time got transformed into individual and personal ones. This happened especially with the media and technologies. Two examples: transportation, where cars (which are mostly used as a means of personal transportation) imposed themselves on other forms of travel; and the media, where TV, for instance, started being viewed collectively, went on to a TV set for every family, then to one for every single member of the family.</p>
<p>At the root of this there are obvious commercial reasons: the more a product becomes invidividual the more the sales. But this is not the only reason. Commercial needs are coemergent with psychic transformation – the one affects the other. The tendency toward individuality also develops in areas which were “traditionally planned” to be shared.</p>
<p>One of those is sexuality.  Masturbation is an evergreen activity, but it hasn&#8217;t always been accepted historically. It has been condemned for a long time, mostly through religious rulings, even scaring boys that it would make them blind. Even though masturbation is still not socially accepted in many parts of the world, especially for women, during the so-called sexual revolution of the 1960s and 1970s women established a more direct and aware relationship with their bodies, which included the right to masturbate withour guilt feelings.</p>
<p>But then, as anything which starts as counterculture and a spontaneous social movement, once it becomes somewhat accepted in the mainstream, it then becomes part of the economy, which makes products out of it.</p>
<p>Masturbation is expanding. Among the reasons is the AIDS emergency which produces suspicion compared to the “golden years” of free love; another one is the fast growth of singles and in general of short-term relationships.</p>
<p>Thus a big market is being opened, a market made of objects, porn, sex toys of the more variegate kinds, even remote-controlled and technologically complex sex machines, the Rolls Royce of sex toys. This phenomenon can be creative, fun, and liberating, but at the same time marks an anthropological transformation.</p>
<p>At first glance it seems that sex is becoming technological, but actually it is technology which in the process of digitalization of reality is assimilating human activities more and more. Social life is moving in a digital realm through social networks, the search of a partner and sexual meetings through the dating sites sites, and human biology is seen as a long list of DNA codes.</p>
<p>Becoming part of the big hotchpotch of technology, sex in turn is becoming “personal” and “at click range,” where pleasure, according to what technology offers, has to be immediate, personalized, with various options and, of course, efficient: a guaranteed and quick orgasm. A long wait for orgasm would be as annoying as waiting for a website with a slow Internet connection.</p>
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<p>Molte attività umane sono iniziate come sociali e condivise e nel tempo si sono trasformate in individuali e personali. Questo è avvenuto in particolare per i media e le tecnologie. Due esempi per tutti: il trasporto, dove l&#8217;automobile si è imposta sulle altre forme di trasporto ed è perlopiù utlizzata come forma di trasporto personale, e i media, dove ad esempio la televisione, iniziata in forma di visione collettiva, è passata ad una televisione per ogni famiglia e poi ad una per ogni componente del nucleo familiare.</p>
<p>Alla base di questo vi sono ovviamente ragioni commerciali per le quali più un prodotto diviene individuale maggiori sono le vendite, ma non è la sola ragione. Le necessità commerciali sono coemergenti con la trasformazione della psiche, l&#8217;una influenza l&#8217;altra. La tendenza verso l&#8217;individualità si sviluppa anche su aree che erano “tradizionalmente progettati” per la condivisione.</p>
<p>Una di queste è la sessualità. La masturbazione è un&#8217;attività sempreverde ma non è sempre stata accettata nella storia. Perlopiù tramite dettami religiosi, è stata condannata per lungo tempo, fino al punto di terrorizzare i ragazzi dicendo loro che sarebbero diventati ciechi. Anche se in molte parti del mondo la masturbazione non è tutt&#8217;ora accettata socialmente, in particolare per le donne, durante la cosiddetta rivoluzione sessuale degli anni &#8217;60 e &#8217;70 le donne hanno instaurato una relazione più diretta e consapevole con i loro corpi, includendo in questa il diritto a masturbarsi senza sensi di colpa.</p>
<p>Ma poi, come qualsiasi cosa che inizia come controcultura a partire da un movimento sociale spontaneo, nel momento in cui diventa un minimo accettata, entra come parte dell&#8217;economia e vengono creati dei prodotti al riguardo.</p>
<p>Ecco che si apre allora tutto un mercato fatto di oggetti, pornografia, sex toys delle specie più variegate, anche con il controllo remoto via Internet da parte del partner, e sex machines ingegneristicamente complesse, le Rolls Royce dei sex toys. Il fenomeno può risultare creativo, divertente e liberatorio, ma allo stesso tempo segna una trasformazione antropologica.</p>
<p>A prima vista sembra che il sesso stia diventando tecnologico, ma in realtà è la tecnologia che nel suo processo di digitalizzazione della realtà sta assorbendo sempre più  attività umane. La vita sociale si sposta in un ambito digitale con i social networks, la ricerca del partner e degli incontri sessuali sui siti appositi, e la biologia umana viene vista come una lunga lista di codici DNA.</p>
<p>Diventando parte del gran calderone della tecnologia, il sesso a sua volta si sta rendendo “personal” e “a portata di clic”, dove il piacere, secondo le offerte della tecnologia, dev&#8217;essere immediato, personalizzato, con opzioni variegate e naturalmente, efficiente: l&#8217;orgasmo deve essere garantito e veloce. Una lunga attesa per l&#8217;orgasmo diventerebbe fastidiosa quanto l&#8217;attesa di un sito web con una lenta connessione ad Internet.</p>
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<p>Titled “<a href="http://www.monkeyrocker.com/home.html" target="_blank">Now You Can Have a Partner that will Always Hit Your Spot, Anytime You Want, for as Long as You Want</a>”  this site is just one of the thousands which sell sex toys or more sophisticated sex machines. The way they introduce their creations is symbolic of the inner mechanisms which are triggered by the tool (the parts between parentheses are my comments).</p>
<blockquote><p>Obviously, you deserve all the pleasure you can get. But human partners can sometimes let you down. If you find yourself wishing your lover or lovers were more dependable or more available, may we suggest one that will get you off anytime, every time.</p></blockquote>
<p>(Technology is great in giving control, so why deal with the ups and downs of your lover or lovers? You can decide when, how and how long you want to get pleasure. And if you feel unworthy since none of the lovers satisfy you, or if you think they are all wimps with no passion, now you can get the perfect partner!)</p>
<blockquote><p>Monkey Rocker™ is one of the best innovations in self-pleasuring since the vibrator. It’s a rocking seat with a special pivoting thrust arm assembly which holds and thrusts a wide variety of sex toys.</p></blockquote>
<p>(We are updated, this is vibrator 2.0 with even more options and features.)</p>
<blockquote><p>Though it can’t hug you back, or cuddle, it’s perfectly understandable for you to develop feelings for your Monkey Rocker.™ After all, from the moment you remove it from the unmarked box it arrives in, your Monkey Rocker™ is ready and eager to please you. Just attach the handle assembly and your favorite dildo, and it’s ready to play.</p></blockquote>
<p>(You could develop feelings for it&#8230;and don’t feel guilty&#8230;“it’s perfectly understandable.”)</p>
<blockquote><p>In fact, with no motors to plug in or breakdown, your Monkey Rocker™ is always ready to play. You and your fantasies are in complete control. Monkey Rocker™ relies entirely on your movement to do all of its thrusting. You set the pace. Quick short strokes, long and deep, or anything in between. It’s all about you. No guilt, no risk, no one’s getting hurt.</p></blockquote>
<p>(Perfect control through the machine, no need to be receptive and open to anybody, you are finally empowered! And you can surrender to the machine with no shame or guilt.)</p>
<blockquote><p>This is going to be one relationship with NO learning curve. With its wide, stable base, and smooth gliding movement, you’re going to feel right at home from the first time you climb on. Settle in, grab the handle if you want, then grab yourself or your magic wand or a nearby human partner, anything you have in mind, Monkey Rocker™ is ready to deliver.</p></blockquote>
<p>(&#8230;grab yourself or your magic wand or a nearby human partner, anything you have “in mind”&#8230;Looks like the world, human beings included, are creations of our mind, at our control as in a video game.)</p>
<blockquote><p>YOU can scream if you like, but Monkey Rocker™ won’t make a sound. If you can keep YOUR sound level down, total privacy is yours.</p></blockquote>
<p>(Those annoying moans and screams of my partner&#8230; and what will the neighburs think? Maybe they’ll suspect that I have sex with a&#8230;oh my God&#8230;with a human being? And now I can scream as much as I want without feeling a slut.)</p>
<blockquote><p>And when you’re done, you’re done. That’s it. Your Monkey Rocker™ doesn’t have any expectations. Your Monkey Rocker™ will never berate you for taking too long, coming too soon, leaving suddenly, staying out all night, talking too much, drinking too much or seeing other machines. And no matter how big or small it is, your Monkey Rocker™ loves your ass. Back it on up. Bring it on. You never have to wonder what it REALLY thinks of you; your Monkey Rocker™ LOVES you! And is always ready to prove it.</p></blockquote>
<p>(No need to feel unworthy or vulnerable. This machine will accept you unconditionally, even your fat ass. This is the mark of real love.)</p>
<p>The producers say that the tool can be used with a partner as well, for instance:</p>
<blockquote><p>If your partner’s sexual appetite exceeds yours, don’t let her frustration slowly poison your relationship with resentment. There’s a good chance your partner would be delighted to have something like Monkey Rocker™ to help keep her satisfied. Compared to cheating or divorce, the cost is far less and the potential for happiness is much greater.</p></blockquote>
<p>(Looks like a great investment!)</p>
<p>Or:</p>
<blockquote><p>Another possible advantage is reducing your performance anxiety. If you’re not certain you’ll be able to satisfy her, Monkey Rocker™ can. And she’ll think better of you that you care enough about her satisfaction to have a backup ready.</p></blockquote>
<p>(You can now out source your sexual acts to the machine, which will take care of her satisfaction, as a “backup”.)</p>
<p>The sex machine shuts up in a single hit every superego voices. The superego is the inner judge and the inner controller which limits our free and authentic expression. Furthermore, the sex machine it avoids the difficulties of facing our vulnerabilities, avoids the fear of not feeling accepted, and the difficulties in showing our desire candidly to our partner.</p>
<p>Sexuality involves complex psychological processes regarding guilt, shame, and our sense of limits. Even the intensity of a passionate gaze or surrendering to pleasure can be difficult to include fully in our sexuality with a partner. But those are exactly the difficulties which have to be crossed to integrate our humanity, intensity, and ability to relate in depth through sex.</p>
<p>Even though sex machines can work for couples too, basically they are made for masturbation which, added to cybersex through chats and webcams, makes solo sex a growing activity, even though mediated by sex toys, sex machines or by a chat window and a webcam.</p>
<p>People can have different opinions about masturbation but in this activity there’s an opportunity as well for the brave souls who dare to go into their depths.</p>
<p>Self-love can become a tantric practice. Practicing with sexual energy without a partner, through breathing techniques, meditation and solo sex techniques has been a spiritual path in certain tantric traditions to reach the source of sexual energy, which, refined and transformed, is the same source of love, awareness, and spiritual energy. Through tantra we can understand that we ourselves are the source of sexual energy and that the other is just triggering what is already in us. Then, at the deepest tantric levels, there isn’t anymore me, you, or the attraction between us: all connect in a global Oneness (or in a cosmic orgy if we prefer it this way).</p>
<p>So in a way, whether the partner is a human being or a sex toy or if the sex act is mediated by cybersex doesn’t change much for our path to discovery. With human beings we are more emotionally engaged and this brings us to project on them our object relationships (parent figures mostly), our expectations, our ego, our sense of worth or worthlessness. The less emotionally engaging the sexual relationship is, the less projections we’ll have toward the other and the more the attention we can give to our inner movements, to our reactions and the flow of sexual energy. After all the Monkey Rocker presentation hit a deeper truth (though I doubt the authors of the text are into tantric philosophy).</p>
<p>The question is: does relating sexually with objects or through the Internet bring a larger awareness of our sexuality and of the self in general, or is an object relationship being created even with objects and media? At first glance, I’d say the second hypothesis, since the Net’s modalities of fruition leave little space to a 180-degree turn of attention from the screen to inner life.</p>
<p>The sensation is that the technological way toward sexuality and the expansion of sex toys share the same attributes which give technological gadgets their fascination: control (cybersex can be stopped at any moment with a simple click; sex toys for every taste, options to manipulate sensations); predictability (differently from a person with his complexities); independence (technology feeds the feeling or the illusion or freedom, technological sex doesn’t need to become attached to anybody or have any continuity); speed (going straight to pleasure and orgasm avoiding delays). Also, it quickly brings back energy to the body and its sensations somehow balance the stressful use of the mind in the information society.</p>
<p>Technological sex is part of the more general drive to find an answer to human needs translating them into digital and wanting to upgrade ourselves, feelings and sensations included, through technology. Those “superpowers” seem a reflection on the mental plane of the self-awareness and the metamorphosis capacities we can acquire through a path of self-knowledge. But the pursuit for qualities is directed toward the external, being through technological gadgets or DNA manipulation.</p>
<p>The sex machine site writes: “Though it can’t hug you back, or cuddle, it’s perfectly understandable for you to develop feelings for your Monkey Rocker.” Relating with objects we can substitute an object relationship that is part of human sharing, in this case sex and the feelings associated with it, with a machine or an object. In Japan, where the first uses of robots to take care of and give company to elders are beginning, it has been noticed that the users were developing feelings for them.</p>
<p>What happens when such a technological approach toward deep human needs, which involve care, affection and sexuality are mediated by machines? What happens when this approach toward sexuality is the first and maybe the only one by a <a href="http://www.indranet.org/cybervirgins/" target="_blank">cybervirgin</a>?</p>
<p>What happens when all social indicators are saying that people have less and less real intimate and trustful connections in real life, when East and West societes are sharing the same alienation and when sex machines and robots are coming into our lifes?</p>
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<p>Con il titolo “<a href="http://www.monkeyrocker.com/home.html" target="_blank">Ora puoi avere un partner che raggiungerà sempre il tuo punto, quando vuoi e per tutto il tempo che vuoi</a>”, questo sito è solo uno delle migliaia che vendono sex toy o più elaborate sex machines. Il modo in cui introducono le loro creazioni è simbolico dei meccanismi interiori che vengono attivati fallo strumento. Le parti tra parentesi sono i miei commenti.</p>
<blockquote><p>Ovviamente, ti meriti tutto il piacere che puoi ottenere. Ma i partner umani qualche volta possono deluderti. Se ti trovi a desiderare che il tuo amante o i tuoi amanti fossero più affidabili o più disponibili, possiamo suggerirtene uno che ti farà decollare ogni volta, tutte le volte.</p></blockquote>
<p>(La tecnologia è grande per fornire controllo, quindi perché mai avere a che fare con gli alti e i bassi dei tuoi amanti? Puoi decidere quando, come e quanto a lungo vuoi godere. E se non ti senti abbastanza attraente per il fatto che nessun amante ti può soddisfare, oppure se pensi che siano tutti degli imbranati senza passione, ora puoi avere il partner perfetto!)</p>
<blockquote><p>Monkey Rocker™ è una delle migliori innovazioni per la masturbazione dall&#8217;invenzione del vibratore. E&#8217; un sedile oscillante com un perno speciale di spinta che sostiene e spinge un&#8217;ampia varietà di giocattoli sessuali.</p></blockquote>
<p>(Siamo aggiornati, questo è il vibratore 2.0 che ha ancora più opzioni e possibilità)</p>
<blockquote><p>Anche se non può ricambiare un abbraccio o coccolarti, è perfettamente comprensibile se provi dei sentimenti per il tuo Monkey Rocker.™ Dopotutto, dal momento in cui lo togli dalla scatola senza dicitura in cui arriva, il tuo Monkey Rocker™ è pronto e desideroso di soddisfarTI.</p></blockquote>
<p>(Potresti provare dei sentimenti&#8230; e non sentirti in colpa&#8230; “è perfettamente comprensibile”)</p>
<blockquote><p>Infatti, senza motori da collegare o che si possano guastare, il tuo Monkey Rocker™ è sempre pronto per te. Tu e le tue fantasie sono in completo controllo. Monkey Rocker™ si basa interamente sui tuoi movimenti perché effetti le sue spinte. Tu definisci il ritmo. Colpi veloci e corti, lunghi e profondi, o qualsiasi via di mezzo. Dipende interamente da te. Nessun senso di colpa, nessun rischio, nessuno che si faccia male.</p></blockquote>
<p>(Controllo perfetto tramite la macchina, nessun bisogno di essere recettivi o aperti verso nessuno, finalmente hai il tuo potere! E puoi abbandonarti alla macchina senza sensi di colpa né vergogna)</p>
<blockquote><p>Questa è una relazione senza una curva di apprendimento. Con i suoi movimento ampi, stabili e fluidi, ti sentirai a casa dal primo momento in cui ci salirai sopra. Mettiti in comodità, se vuoi afferra la maniglia, quindi afferrati, o afferra la tua bacchetta magica oppure un partner umano nei pressi, qualsiasi cosa che ti passa per la mente,  Monkey Rocker™ è pronto per la consegna.</p></blockquote>
<p>(afferrati, o afferra la tua bacchetta magica oppure un partner umano nei pressi, qualsiasi cosa che ti passa “per la mente”&#8230; Sembra come se il mondo, esseri umani compresi, siano creazioni della nostra mente, sotto il nostro controllo come in un video game).</p>
<blockquote><p>TU puoi urlare se ti va, ma Monkey Rocker™ non emetterà un suono. Se tu puoi tenere il TUO livello di suono basso, avrai una privacy totale.</p></blockquote>
<p>(Questi fastidiosi gemiti e urla del partner&#8230;  e cosa penseranno i vicini? Magari penseranno che sto facendo sesso con&#8230; oh mio Dio&#8230; con un essere umano? Anche, ora posso urlare quanto voglio senza sentirmi una troia)</p>
<blockquote><p>E quando hai finito, hai finito. Questo è tutto. Il tuo Monkey Rocker™ non ha alcuna aspettativa. Il tuo Monkey Rocker™ non ti rimprovererà mai per metterci troppo tempo, venire troppo alla svelta, andartene d&#8217;improvviso, stare fuori tutta la notte, parlare troppo, bere troppo, o frequentare altre macchine. E, a prescindere che sia grande o piccolo, il tuo Monkey Rocker™ ama il tuo sedere. Dacci dentro. Mettilo in azione. Not avrai mai bisogno di chiderti cosa VERAMENTE pensi di te; il tuo Monkey Rocker™ TI AMA! Ed è sempre pronto per dimostrartelo.</p></blockquote>
<p>(Nessun bisogno di provare senso di inadeguatezza o vulnerabilità. Questa macchina ti accetterà incondizionatamente, compreso il tuo grande sedere. Questo è il segno del vero amore.)</p>
<p>I produttori affermano che lo strumento può essere usato anche con un partner, ad esempio:</p>
<blockquote><p>Se l&#8217;appetito sessuale del tuo partner supera il tuo, non fare in modo che la sua frustrazione avveleni la relazione con i risentimenti. C&#8217;è una buona possibilità che il tuo partner si possa rallegrare dall&#8217;avere qualcosa come Monkey Rocker™ per aiutarla nella sua soddisfazione. In confronto all&#8217;inganno o al divorzio, il costo è molto minore e la potenzialità di felicità è molto maggiore.</p></blockquote>
<p>(Sembra un grande investimento!)</p>
<p>oppure</p>
<blockquote><p>Un altro possibile vantaggio è quello di ridurre le tue ansie da performance. Se non sei certo di poterla soddisfare, Monkey Rocker™ può. E lei avrà una migliore opinione di te perché tu ti prendi cura della sua soddisfazione avendo un backup a disposizione.</p></blockquote>
<p>(Ora puoi esternalizzare i tuoi atti sessuali verso la macchina che si prenderà cura della sua soddisfazione, come un “backup”)</p>
<p>La macchina da sesso zittisce in un colpo solo tutte le voci del superego. Il superego è il giudice e controllore interiore che limita la nostra libertà e la nostra espressione autentica. Inoltre la macchina da sesso evita il dover vedersi la propria vulnerabilità, evita il timore di essere accettato ed evita la difficoltà nel manifestare il proprio desiderio in modo chiaro di fronte al partner.</p>
<p>La sessualità coinvolge processi psichici complessi che riguardano i sensi di colpa, la vergogna e il nostro senso dei limiti. Anche la stessa l&#8217;intensità di uno sguardo appassionato o l&#8217;abbandonarsi pienamente al piacere possono essere atti difficili da includere nella propria sessualità. Ma sono esattamente queste le difficoltà da attraversare per integrare la nostra umanità, intensità e capacità di relazionarci profondamente tramite il sesso.</p>
<p>Anche se le macchine per il sesso possono essere utilizzate dalle coppie, fondamentalmente sono strumenti per la masturbazione i quali, aggiunti ai cibersesso tramite le chat e le webcam, fa sì che il sesso da soli sia un&#8217;attività in crescita, anche se è mediato da oggetti tipo sex toys o da una finestra di chat sul computer o una webcam.</p>
<p>La gente ha diverse opinioni a riguardo della masturbazione, ma in questa atttività c&#8217;è anche per chi ha coraggio, l&#8217;opportunità di entrare nella propria profondità.</p>
<p>Il sesso con se stessi può diventare una pratica tantrica. Lavorare con l&#8217;energia sessuale senza un  partner, attraverso tecniche di respiro, meditazione e sesso in solitaria in alcune tradizioni tantriche ha rappresentato un percorso per raggiungere la sorgente dell&#8217;energia sessuale, la quale, quando viene raffinata e trasformata, è la stessa sorgente dell&#8217;amore, della consapevolezza e dell&#8217;energia spirituale. Tramite il tantra possiamo comprendere che siamo la sorgente stessa dell&#8217;energia sessuale e che l&#8217;altro dà solamente l&#8217;avvio a ciò che è già presente in noi stessi. Poi, a livelli più profondi tantrici, non esiste più alcun me, te e neppure l&#8217;attrazione tra di noi, tutto si connette in un&#8217;unità globale (o in un&#8217;orgia cosmica se la si vuole vedere in questo modo).</p>
<p>In un certo senso, che il partner sia un essere umano o un sex toy, o se l&#8217;atto sessuale viene mediato dal cibersesso, non cambia per il nostro percorso di scoperta. Con gli esseri umani siamo più coinvolti emozionalmente e questo ci porta a proiettare in loro i nostri oggetti di relazione (primariamente le figure genitoriali), le nostre aspettative, il nostro ego, il nostro senso di aver o non avere valore.  Se la relazione sessuale è emozionalmente meno coinvolgente, ci saranno meno proiezioni verso l&#8217;altro e potremo dare più attenzione ai movimenti interiori, alle nostre reazioni e al flusso dell&#8217;energia sessuale. Dopotutto la presentazione del Monkey Rocker ha toccato una verità più profonda, anche se dubito che gli autori del testo siano interessati alla filosofia tantrica.</p>
<p>La domanda quindi è: il rapportarsi sessualmente con oggetti e tramite Internet porta ad una maggiore consapevolezza della propria energia sessuale e di sé in generale, oppure si crea un oggetto di relazione anche con gli oggetti e i mezzi? In prima battuta sarei più per la seconda ipotesi, in quanto le modalità di fruizione della Rete lasciano poco spazio ad un giro di 180 gradi dell&#8217;attenzione, dallo schermo all&#8217;interiorità.</p>
<p>L&#8217;impressione è che la via tecnologica verso la sessualità e l&#8217;espansione dell&#8217;uso di sex toys abbia gli stessi attributi che danno ai gadget tecnologici il loro fascino: controllo (cybersesso che può essere terminato con un semplice clic, sex toys per tutti i gusti, opzioni per manipolare le sensazioni), prevedibilità (a differenza di una persona con le sue complessità), indipendenza (la tecnologia alimenta il senso o l&#8217;illusione di libertà, il sesso tecnologico non richiede attaccamenti o una continuità), velocità (andare al sodo del piacere senza perdite di tempo). Anche, riporta l&#8217;energia al corpo e alle sue sensazioni in modo rapido per equilibrare in qualche modo l&#8217;uso stressante della mente nella società dell&#8217;informazione.</p>
<p>Il sesso tecnologico fa parte della più generale spinta a trovare una risposta alle necessità umane traducendole in digitale e volendo fare un “upgrade” di noi stessi, comprese emozioni e sensazioni, tramite le tecnologia. Questi “superpoteri” sembrano un riflesso sul piano della mente della  consapevolezza di noi stessi e delle capacità di metamorfosi che vengono date da un percorso di conoscenza interiore. Ma la ricerca delle qualità viene rivolta verso l&#8217;esterno, che sia tramite gadget tecnologici o la manipolazione del DNA.</p>
<p>Il sito della sex machine scrive che “Anche se non può ricambiare un abbraccio o coccolarti, è perfettamente comprensibile se provi dei sentimenti per il tuo Monkey Rocker.” Relazionandoci con gli oggetti possiamo sostituire un oggetto di relazione di qualcosa che fa parte dello scambio umano, in questo caso il sesso con le sue emozioni, con una macchina o un oggetto. In Giappone, dove si iniziano i primi utilizzi del robot per prendersi cura e tenere compagnia agli anziani, è stato notato che gli utilizzatori sviluppano sentimenti per essi.</p>
<p>Cosa succede quanto un tale approccio tecnologico verso i bisogni profondi umani, che coinvolgono  cura, affetto e sessualità sono meduati ma macchine? Cosa avviene quando questo approccio verso la sessualità è il primo e magari l&#8217;unico da parte di una <a href="http://www.indranet.org/cybervirgins/" target="_blank">cibervergine</a>?</p>
<p>Cosa succede quando quando tutti gli indicatori sociali stanno dicendo che le persone hanno sempre meno connessioni intime e di fiducia nella vita reale, quando l&#8217;Oriente e l&#8217;Occidente sono accomunati dalla stessa alienazione e quando le macchine da sesso e i robots entrano nella nostra vita?</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 06:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ivo Quartiroli</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The tendency of spreading sex has been adopted by many magazines of large circulation and by other media such as TV and Internet news sites. Magazines with large circulation have a well-defined and advertised section of “tips, tricks and secrets” concerning sex. It reminds me of the time when I was publishing computer science books [...]]]></description>
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<p>The tendency of spreading sex has been adopted by many magazines of large circulation and by other media such as TV and Internet news sites. Magazines with large circulation have a well-defined and advertised section of “tips, tricks and secrets” concerning sex. It reminds me of the time when I was publishing computer science books where the tricks of using the software were revealed.</p>
<p>Apart from the fact that communication about sex has become technicized, giving space for tricks and the advice of “experts,” perhaps for exorcising the intense and inner engaging nature of sexuality, it remains a fact that sexual messages are present in a pervasive way in every media. It seems that the world is like a global &#8220;Sex and the City&#8221; set, made of free and varied sexual meetings. If this can be true in some areas of the world, the planetary diffusion of sexual messages culturally does not find much similarity worldwide. The reality is that at least two-thirds of the world lives in a rather restrictive, traditional, and sometimes even very repressive culture regarding sex.</p>
<p>The massive process of worldwide urbanization caused the appearance of a growing number of singles not only in the West but even in every emerging country, especially in Asia and the Middle East. In Shanghai, Delhi, Seoul, Bangkok, Dubai, Manila or Jakarta, the growing class of office employees is formed mainly of women, connected to the Internet.</p>
<p>They often live alone or with female roommates, are members of Internet social networks and dating sites, like Western women. During breaks at work they chat and a growing percentage connects to the Net from home also. This seems to be the lifestyle of many women in the West, but there is a fundamental difference: they live in a traditional society as far as sexual roles are concerned. Even though some countries, like Thailand, are well-known for their hot night life, the majority of people follow very traditional behavior and lifestyles.</p>
<p>As a contrast to their upbringing, a culture without filters can sneak through their computer screen (which has almost nothing to do with tradition) of virtual meetings, erotic chats and porno sites, sometimes extreme ones. The ease of getting in contact with anyone through dating sites is a great difference between ordinary reality and what one lives online on the screen. The gap between traditional culture and the online becomes more and more wide because the culture of a whole country evolves more slowly compared to the speed of technological and online transformation. A great dichotomy is being created between the way one should be and appear in a certain manner according to the requirements of traditional culture and what the Net offers.</p>
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<p>Thus, peculiar figures are being created on the Net, whom I label cybervirgins: women who have never had real sexual relationships with a man but are sexually active online. We are not speaking about young girls, but college students, employed women, mature women and, it is rather surprising for a Western man to discover that women who are in their 30s or even 40s, in certain cultures, are still virgins if they’ve never had a husband.</p>
<p>The culture of which they are part limits the probability of a single woman meeting men, especially if she is not very young anymore. Added to this, there&#8217;s a social formality ruling contacts with the opposite sex and a series of traditional rules of behavior. To all the above we have to add the inner limits due to the superego: superego in terms of self-judgment about their behavior and the fear of being judged by society. Very often this female figure lives alone, far from the original family and feels lonely.</p>
<p>The solution seems to be right at hand. The Internet opens infinite possibilities of meeting, in contrast with the boring life of home and work (much more work in the emerging economies). Self-judgment is partially overcome by the protection given by the screen and by the fact that nobody will come to know anything. The medium helps her to know men, even intimately, of whom she has little experience. Afterward a world of seductions, desires, admissions, eroticism, curiosities, lust, pornography, cybersex through words or the webcam can be opened.</p>
<p>In the 1970s Nancy Friday published hundreds of interviews regarding the fantasies and sexual activities of women, revealing vivid, complex, imaginative, sometimes extreme sexual lives, debunking the cultural myth of those times that women “don&#8217;t think about sex that much.” Now the same fantasies can be shared online anonymously, but for a cybervirgin the sensuality and world of lust take place only through the Internet.</p>
<p>Cybervirgins are aware that there is a strong difference with real relationships, even if they have not had any. But after a prolonged experience online there are subtle mental mechanisms which at a certain moment get the upper hand. The nature of the medium itself, even in those who have had their cybersex experiences after many real ones, brings a peculiar attachment to the medium, much more for a cybervirgin. For example, she can define as a boyfriend a man with whom she had only online contacts, and who in turn probably defines himself the same way with other women. In some cases she can become dependent upon porn or cybersex, or masturbate compulsively with variegated sexual fantasies. At other times the extreme nature of some Internet porn creates an inhibitory instead of liberating effect, postponing the meeting with real sex even more.</p>
<p>But most of all the cybervirgin would become attached to the attention given to her in dating sites, to feeling seen, heard, desired and seduced. An email or a message in a dating site becomes the emotion of a love letter, a chat becomes a romantic evening. The process of seduction from the man’s side, which in order to be efficient must be necessarily gentle and respectful of the stages (otherwise just with a single click he can be deleted from her contacts), gratifies and hooks her. Therefore, it becomes possible to share intimately without any shame and to open oneself in manners which can hardly happen in reality. A man on the other hand can have the chance to perfect the art of seduction by learning not to be always impatient and to use words in a way that touch the mind, the emotions and the body.</p>
<p>Basically she is always searching for “the great love” but after a certain time the searching process in itself substitutes the end, which is also less risky for the heart than real meetings. Those few real meetings that she had (if she had any) were mostly unsatisfactory. Remaining in the virtual world she can continue to feed the dream of finding her prince. Because of cultural and religious reasons women have been told to give attention to the “high layers” more than to the body and its feelings. This has fed a world of dreams which sometimes expands in a lack of touch with reality.</p>
<p>There are also the “cybervirgins again”: women separated since years during which they have not had any sexual contact with a man, being busy with children, with their work, and being limited by their traditional societies which do not encourage new meetings. At a certain moment they find themselves with almost independent children as early as 40 years old and with the maturity which makes them more sensual and open. They are strong women who managed to carry on with their family as single mothers, passionate and willing to feel desired again, who find an escape from family and work pressure through the Internet.</p>
<p>The phenomenon of cybervirgins involves young girls as well. Any teenager can access sexual material through the Internet much before getting explicit guidance from the pivotal adults in her life, like parents or teachers. We teach sport to young people, we teach them technologies, culture, arts, but very seldom, even in the most progressive nations, is sexuality faced in an honest and open manner. We guide them step by step enrolling them in the most disparate courses but when it comes to dealing with sexuality, the strongest energy that a human being can meet (apart from meeting the Divine), society leaves them to themselves, abandons them with hypocrisy and cowardice so as not to face themes inconvenient to adults themselves.</p>
<p>Therefore, the first sexual curiosities are satisfied more often through the Internet and as more often than not these continue for some time before having real experiences. I wrote about the female universe because in the dating sites I visited and the people I chat with were mostly females. The masculine world has different modalities of entering the online world, nevertheless complementary in the direction of withdrawing from the reality.</p>
<p>The Internet is nothing new in having the initial approach to sex being mediated by images. This happened in the past as well. When I was a boy there were sex comic strip stories and magazines with sex photos. But it was different, quantitatively (what we could see was very mild compared with what is available today) and, above all, qualitatively (there was no interaction with a real person who probably will never be met).</p>
<p>Furthermore, in most parts of the world pornography did not exist or it could be accessed only in a limited way until a few years ago. The impact of porn is particularly strong in countries which got transformed in a few years from complete obscurity to having a direct entry in the intimacy of their homes. With the Internet an anthropological change is happening which has not yet been fully analyzed. Questionnaires of sociology and psychology do not matter in such a world: it is only possible to know it through having experienced it in first person or by word of mouth between friends. Now, Western and Eastern countries are joined by the same technologies, the same individualism and the same alienation.</p>
<p>In order to understand the impact of this phenomenon on the psyche and on relationships we do not need either judgments of the Internet as a medium, or of the involved people, but an attitude of research without prejudice.</p>
<p>The fundamental questions on this matter are: what happens when sex, an emotional and sensorial experience, in addition to being mental, gets mediated by a screen for a long time predominantly on the mental and visual planes? If this approach to sexuality is the first and the only one for a long time, what type of imprint does it leave on the psyche? What type of relationships with the opposite sex will be shaped in the future? Do Internet cyber-meetings smoothen the way for more open and deep meetings in reality, or do they make us increase the distance more and more from the real which is not familiar and which would involve unknown inner channels?</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Oct 2007 09:32:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ivo Quartiroli</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The liberation to be internally free in having sex the way we feel like or to be free not to have it doesn’t come by merely acting out or by repressing the actual act, but by the level of awareness that we are willing to give our sexual needs, be them indulgence or asceticism.

With the pervasivity of porn we got desensitized towards sexual images and their relationship with our soul.  In this overwhelming input towards sex in society, a certain kind of independent porn could paradoxically reveal the vulnerable, human side and the connection with introspection.
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<p><em>The liberation to be internally free in having sex the way we feel like or to be free not to have it doesn&rsquo;t come by merely acting out or by repressing the actual act, but by the level of awareness that we are willing to give our sexual needs, be them indulgence or asceticism.</em></p>
<p><em>With the pervasivity of porn we got desensitized towards sexual images and their relationship with our soul.&nbsp; In this overwhelming input towards sex in society, a certain kind of independent porn could paradoxically reveal the vulnerable, human side and the connection with introspection.</em><br /> [/en][it]</p>
<p><em>La libert&agrave; interiore di fare sesso nel modo che vogliamo, oppure di non farlo, non dipende dalla semplice espressione o repressione dell&rsquo;atto sessuale in s&eacute;, ma dal livello di consapevolezza che desideriamo portare ai nostri bisogni sessuali, siano essi l&rsquo;indulgenza o l&rsquo;ascetismo.</em></p>
<p><em>Con il dilagare della pornografia ci siamo assuefatti alle immagini sessuali e al loro rapporto con la nostra anima. In mezzo a questo sovraccarico di input sessuali nella societ&agrave;, un certo genere di pornografia indipendente potrebbe paradossalmente rivelare un lato umano e vulnerabile, e un legame con l&rsquo;introspezione.</em></p>
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<p>The liberation to be internally free in having sex the way we feel like or to be free not to have it doesn&rsquo;t come by merely acting out or by repressing the actual act, but by the level of awareness that we are willing to give our sexual needs, be them indulgence or asceticism.</p>
<p>The energies of the &ldquo;low chakras&rdquo; and our deep desires have to be lived and integrated in our humanity in order for us to become a whole person. I trust much more people who live their sexuality fully, heroically descending that ladder with awareness. Sexual repression doesn&rsquo;t work. It gives space to hypocrisy and too often to sexual abuse by the very representatives of religions. Not only by Christian priests, in fact eastern spiritual teachers have also been caught in being sexually abusive towards their disciples. This happens especially when they come to the west and they face sexual energies that were kept hidden by its more traditional setting.</p>
<p>I have been brought up in Italy, in a culture where women are traditionally supposed to be &ldquo;good girls&rdquo; and men are supposed to be Casanovas. My conditioning was the exact opposite of sexual repression, as a man I was supposed to be a stud. I had an ambivalent reaction to that, on the one side I wanted to push myself to be more sexually seductive and on the other side I wanted to explore the warm and sensitive sides of sex. Looking for the spiritual side was an authentic need of my soul but it also matched the unease of living my masculine qualities in a full way. There were feelings of guilt and the expectations of not being accepted if I&rsquo;d shown my sexual intensity clearly and fully. That had to do with the conditionings I received from my family, school and society, where whenever I showed my anger, passion and hot blooded attitudes I wouldn&rsquo;t be accepted.</p>
<p>So something was missing and I switched to the other side, wanting to experience more embodied, intense, heated and rough sex. So I did, for a number of years. It was liberating and to my surprise very well accepted by my partners. Just now, when I&rsquo;m over 40, I&rsquo;m merging both worlds and I have understood that the spiritual attitude accepts and includes every kind of energy, even the &ldquo;lowest&rdquo;.</p>
<p> This unification process of internal energies didn&rsquo;t come as a &ldquo;technical&rdquo; skill, but as giving light with awareness at what was preventing the integration of the heart and the body. And much of what I saw in myself was rooted in collective religious conditionings, even though I had not personally been much conditioned in that sense. Those collective messages are stronger than our personal or family histories; they are just in the thoughts sphere that is breathed in by everyone.</p>
<p>Sex is a beautiful opening of our sensations, connection, pleasure and empathy. At the same time, true sexual exploration often becomes an uncharted path full of pitfalls. As the most powerful energy around, sex challenges our feelings, our conditionings, our integrity, our self-image and our practical life as well. We can get stuck in addictive behaviours, we can get diseases, we can become socially condemned, we can have trouble with the law according to the different country rules.</p>
<p>This path, when took authentically, is as difficult nowadays as it was in ancient times. Already in the ancient sacred sexual disciplines such as the tantric ones, the path of sex was for courageous souls who were willing to face both their inner demons and inner gods. </p>
<p>In the last decades, western countries have experienced the growing of porn, and a further acceleration of it in the last ten years with the Internet. Porn was born as the other side of sexual repression: acting out desires and letting the wild side be free, as much as it was allowed by the period. The dichotomy between women as Mother Mary or Magdalene couldn&rsquo;t be healed in a way accepted by our culture, so we displaced the wild sexual aspects in the porn area. Porn, in the meanwhile, developed in different directions, amongst which in the extremization of sexual practices and in having an easy access to it through technology and the media.</p>
<p>In general the history of porn didn&rsquo;t show much respect towards the people involved, and too frequently was clearly abusive, exploiting and humiliating. Such pervasive porn contributed to the further splitting of lust and feelings in our culture, which were separated much earlier with the rejection of the natural human desire of sex by the monotheistic religions and made even more difficult by the arrival of the present competitive society where our best energies have to be given to production. The young people sexual culture of &quot;hooking up&quot; and no-strings-attached sex act has been reported by Laura Sessions Stepp in her book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1594489386/innernet-20" target="_blank"><em>Unhooked </em></a>that, according to the Washington Post reviewing is about:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8230;no commitment, no exclusivity, no feelings. The girls adopt the crude talk of crude boys: They speak of hitting it, of boy toys and filler boys, &quot;my plaything&quot; and &quot;my bitch.&quot; Why hook up? According to Stepp, college women, obsessed with academic and career success, say they don&#39;t have time for a real relationship; high school girls say lovey-dovey relationships give them the &quot;yucks.&quot;</p>
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<p>We got desensitized towards sexual images and their relationship with our soul. Images that would have shocked me as a young man are now a click away from everybody and few people are shocked by them anymore. There is an absence of meaningful and useful sexual guidance and support in society, where teachers and priests are either in denial or on the repressing side, where popular culture promotes just the superficial sides and brainless sexual symbols, where parents do not have the time or the emotional capacities to talk sympathetically about sex and where Internet porn mostly manipulates just the rudimentary instincts.</p>
<p>There are workshop and schools on sexuality and tantra almost everywhere. But very few people attend them compared to the millions of people that are porn consumers: sex related words are among the most popular Google&rsquo;s searches. Pandora&#39;s box have already been open and porn is going to stay with us.</p>
<p>In this overwhelming input towards sex in society, a certain kind of independent porn could paradoxically reveal the vulnerable, human side and the connection with introspection. While it&rsquo;s quite easy to show oneself naked on the Internet or build a site where anybody can promote, sell or even produce their own porn, less easy is to expose the nakedness of the soul. I foresee that a direction of porn will evolve toward this path.</p>
<p>One of the seeds in this direction is personified by <a href="http://www.maylingsu.com" target="_blank">May Ling Su</a>, an Asian woman who self-produces porn mostly with her partner and father of her child, among other artistic activities. She allows readers of her blog to participate to her sexual, ordinary and introspective life. A sort of Porn 2.0.</p>
<p>Her free videos are shown in small low resolution windows and this makes the viewer participate even more. See my article <a href="http://www.indranet.org/cool-hot-media-and-gender-attraction/" target="_blank">Cool, hot media and gender attraction</a> regarding how different media shape the attraction between gender. Talking about feelings that revolve around porn and showing the vulnerable side of sexual life can be done with more authoritativeness by somebody who lives their lust in its fullness. Not everybody who dug the bottom have or is willing to build the inside resources to use sex as energy for awareness. But only those who walked the whole path of facing instincts can integrate lust and awareness and go towards deeper self understanding, as a path towards our wholeness and truth.</p>
<blockquote><p>The more intense desires are, the more consciousness there is. This is why it is said that desires &quot;flare up.&quot; As consciousness evolves more, desires will also grow more. Hence, the more man evolves in time, in history and the more intense his desires will become. There is no need to be afraid of this and there is also no need to be worried about it. It is simply an indication of one thing: that the light of your consciousness is also aware of things which were not known to it in the past. [...] Another interesting thing is that the farther away the object of your desire is, the more you will forget yourself. Hence, in the past it was easier to return to yourself than it is today. Today, the distance between your consciousness and the objects of your desires is much greater. The distance that you have to travel to fulfil your desires is so far away from you that coming back has become more and more difficult. This is why it was easier to be spiritual in the past. Today, spirituality is much more difficult. There is one more thing: although in the past man could be spiritual more easily, the inner explosion of his spirituality could not be as great as it can be today. The farther away one has gone astray, the greater the inner explosion when one returns home. Osho. <em>Flight of the Alone to the Alone</em>. Rebel Publishing House. Pune. 2000.</p>
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<p>Whilst any spiritual teacher teaches about desires as hindrances on the path to liberation, many are realistically saying that desires, because of their nature, have to be experienced in real life. Even though according to Nisargadatta Maharaj &ldquo;The perennial desire for pleasure is the reflection of the timeless harmony within. It is an observable fact that one becomes self-conscious only when caught in the conflict between pleasure and pain, which demands choice and decision&rdquo;, on the assertion of a disciple saying &ldquo;What the Yogi secures by renunciation (tyaga) the common man realizes through experience (bhoga). The way of Bhoga is unconscious and, therefore, repetitive and protracted, while the way of Yoga is deliberate and intense and, therefore, can be more rapid.&rdquo; he answered:</p>
<blockquote><p>Maybe the periods of Yoga and Bhoga alternate. First Bhogi, then Yogi, then again Bhogi, then again Yogi. Weak desires can be removed by introspection and meditation, but strong, deep-rooted ones must be fulfilled and their fruits, sweets or bitter, tasted. Nisargadatta Maharaj. <em>I Am That</em>. Acorn Press. Durham. 1982. </p></blockquote>
<p>So experiences have to be lived totally, but they also have to fuel our awareness in order to observe ourselves:</p>
<blockquote><p>Use your mind. Remember. Observe. You are not different from others. Most of their experiences are valid for you too. Think clearly and deeply, go into the entire structure of your desires and their ramifications. They are a most important part of your mental and emotional make-up and powerfully affect your actions. Remember, you cannot abandon what you do not know. To go beyond yourself, you must know yourself. Nisargadatta Maharaj. <em>I Am That</em>. Acorn Press. Durham. 1982.</p>
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<p>Bypassing desires is not a solution. On the question &ldquo;and if I desire nothing, not even the Supreme?&rdquo; Nisargadatta answered &ldquo;Then you are as good as dead, or you are the Supreme.&rdquo;.</p>
<p> Even feminists have their pro-porn attitudes and gave an important contribution in the acceptance of sexual needs in women and in promoting respect rather than exploitation, but people as May Ling Su don&rsquo;t come from any ideological or philosophical standpoint so the approach of her reflections is more personal and closer to everybody&rsquo;s experience. Self-producing porn that way, where she and her partner are actors, directors and post-production artists is, in addition to being in control of their choices and not being exploited by anyone, an opportunity for awareness. I can imagine that she asked herself questions as: What do I want to convey in this video? What drives me into this sexual practice? How do I feel in doing it? Was I authentically into what I was doing? Do I really want to show this publicly? And others. Looking at the camera and at herself at the same time produces a feedback loop where the inside and outside are mutually fed with information, including the aware part and still keeping the enjoyment.</p>
<p> In other times people could avoid any encounter with sexual energy quite easily. Spiritual practitioners who wanted to descend into their soul would have faced those energies anyway even through bare meditation since sex is an aspect that belongs to every human being and is going to come to the surface during any awareness practice. But in our current society, at least in the west, is almost impossible to avoid meeting sexual energies, the external pressure is just overwhelming. Our desires are triggered and stimulated by every means giving us opportunities to drown into deep waters or to find pearls within our awareness.</p>
<p>Once we obtain the objects of our desires, that achievement becomes of no value since the mind is interested in what is not still attained; unless we recognize sex as our most powerful desire and we include it in our awareness, our evolution as human beings cannot go much further.&nbsp;</p>
<p>See also:</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span><a href="http://www.indranet.org/sex-black-hole/"><span>Sex black hole</span></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.indranet.org/superego-orgasm-20/"><span>Superego orgasm 2.0</span></a></p>
<p> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;"><a href="http://www.indranet.org/cool-hot-media-and-gender-attraction/">Cool, hot media and gender attraction</a></span><br /> [/en][it]
<p>La libert&agrave; interiore di fare sesso nel modo che vogliamo, oppure di non farlo, non dipende dalla semplice espressione o repressione dell&rsquo;atto sessuale in s&eacute;, ma dal livello di consapevolezza che desideriamo portare ai nostri bisogni sessuali, siano essi l&rsquo;indulgenza o l&rsquo;ascetismo.</p>
<p>Le energie dei &ldquo;chakra inferiori&rdquo; e i nostri desideri profondi vanno vissuti e integrati nella nostra umanit&agrave;, affinch&eacute; noi possiamo diventare persone integre. Mi fido molto di pi&ugrave; delle persone che vivono totalmente la loro sessualit&agrave;, scendendo in modo eroico e consapevole quella scala.La repressione sessuale non funziona. &Egrave; all&rsquo;origine di ipocrisie e troppo spesso di abusi sessuali a opera degli stessi rappresentanti delle religioni. Non mi riferisco solo ai preti cristiani: sono stati accertati casi di violenze sui discepoli anche da parte di insegnanti spirituali orientali. Ci&ograve; accade soprattutto quando essi arrivano in Occidente e si trovano di fronte a energie sessuali che nel loro contesto di origine, pi&ugrave; tradizionale, restavano nascoste.</p>
<p>Io sono cresciuto in Italia, in una cultura dove alle donne viene chiesto di essere &ldquo;brave ragazze&rdquo;, agli uomini di essere dei Casanova. Il mio condizionamento &egrave; stato l&rsquo;esatto opposto della repressione sessuale: come uomo, dovevo essere uno stallone. La mia reazione a ci&ograve; &egrave; stata ambivalente: da un lato, volevo sforzarmi di essere pi&ugrave; sessualmente seducente; dall&rsquo;altro, desideravo esplorare l&rsquo;aspetto profondo e sensibile del sesso. Mettersi alla ricerca del lato spirituale era un bisogno autentico della mia anima, ma derivava anche dalle mie difficolt&agrave; a vivere il lato maschile in modo chiaro e completo. Avevo sensi di colpa e mi aspettavo di non essere accettato, se avessi mostrato chiaramente e completamente la mia intensit&agrave; sessuale. Ci&ograve; era dovuto al condizionamento ricevuto in famiglia, nella scuola o in societ&agrave;, dove ogni volta che mostravo rabbia, passione o stati d&rsquo;animo focosi non venivo accettato o giudicato.</p>
<p>Mancava qualcosa e passai all&rsquo;altro lato: volevo vivere la sessualit&agrave; in modo pi&ugrave; fisico, intenso, focoso e primordiale. E cos&igrave; feci, per diversi anni. Era liberatorio e, con mia sorpresa, molto gradito dalle partner. Solo ora che ho superato i quaranta anni sto riunificando le due dimensioni e ho capito che lo spirituale accetta e include ogni tipo di energia, anche quelle &ldquo;basse&rdquo;.</p>
<p>Questo processo di unione delle energie interiori non &egrave; stato tanto un fatto &ldquo;tecnico&rdquo;, quanto un portare luce e consapevolezza a ci&ograve; che impediva l&rsquo;integrazione tra cuore e corpo. E molto di ci&ograve; che ho visto in me aveva radici nei condizionamenti religiosi collettivi, bench&eacute; io, personalmente, non avessi ricevuto molto di quel tipo di condizionamenti. Tali messaggi collettivi sono pi&ugrave; forti delle nostre vicende personali o famigliari: fanno parte della &ldquo;sfera dei pensieri&rdquo; che tutti respiriamo.</p>
<p>Il sesso &egrave; una magnifica espansione della sensibilit&agrave;, del piacere, dell&rsquo;empatia, del senso di connessione. Allo stesso tempo, esplorare sinceramente la sessualit&agrave; spesso vuol dire percorrere un cammino sconosciuto e pieno di trappole. Poich&eacute; &egrave; l&rsquo;energia pi&ugrave; potente, il sesso sfida i sentimenti, i condizionamenti, la nostra integrit&agrave;, l&rsquo;immagine di noi stessi e anche la nostra vita pratica. Possiamo restare bloccati in comportamenti dipendenti, contrarre malattie, venire guidicati dalla societ&agrave;; possiamo anche avere problemi con la legge, a seconda delle normative dei vari Paesi. Questo cammino, quando viene intrapreso in modo autentico, &egrave; tanto difficile oggi quanto lo era nei tempi antichi. Gi&agrave; nelle antiche discipline sessuali sacre, come quelle tantriche, la via del sesso era per animi coraggiosi capaci di affrontare sia i demoni che gli dei interiori.</p>
<p>Nelle ultime decadi, i Paesi occidentali hanno assistito allo sviluppo della pornografia e ad un&rsquo;ulteriore accelerazione (nell&rsquo;ultimo decennio) tramite Internet. La pornografia &egrave; nata come l&rsquo;altra faccia della repressione sessuale: dare sfogo ai desideri e liberare il lato selvaggio, nei limiti del consentito dalle epoche storiche. La dicotomia femminile tra Madre Maria e Maddalena non era sanabile in modi accettati dalla nostra cultura, per cui abbiamo relegato gli aspetti sessuali istintivi nell&rsquo;area pornografica. La pornografia, nel frattempo, si &egrave; sviluppata in diverse direzioni, tra cui l&rsquo;estremizzazione delle pratiche sessuali e la facilit&agrave; di accesso tramite i media e la tecnologia.</p>
<p> In generale la pornografia, nel corso della sua storia, non ha mostrato molto rispetto per i suoi protagonisti, e anzi troppo frequenti sono stati i casi di violenza, sfruttamento e umiliazione. Una pornografia tanto diffusa ha contribuito ad accrescere nella nostra cultura la scissione tra libidine e sentimenti, che si era separata molto tempo prima tramite il rifiuto del naturale desiderio sessuale operato dalle religioni monoteiste. L&rsquo;avvento dell&rsquo;attuale societ&agrave; competitiva, in cui le nostre migliori energie devono essere dedicate alla produzione, ha reso tutto pi&ugrave; difficile. La cultura sessuale dei giovani, fatta di &ldquo;rimorchiare&rdquo; e assenza di impegni, &egrave; stata descritta nel libro <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1594489386/innernet-20" target="_blank"><em>Unhooked </em></a>di Laura Sessions Stepp. Secondo il Washington Post, questo libro parla di:</p>
<blockquote><p>&hellip; nessun impegno, nessuna esclusivit&agrave;, nessun sentimento. Le ragazze adottano il linguaggio volgare dei ragazzi volgari: parlano di scopate, ragazzi oggetto, ragazzi giocattolo, troie. Perch&eacute; impegnarsi? Secondo Stepp, le ragazze dei college, ossessionate dal successo accademico e dalla carriera, dicono di non avere tempo per una relazione autentica; quelle delle scuole superiori, da parte loro, dicono che le relazioni dolci sono una romanticheria insopportabile. </p></blockquote>
<p>Ci siamo assuefatti alle immagini sessuali e al loro rapporto con la nostra anima. Le immagini che mi avrebbero scioccato come giovane uomo, oggi sono a distanza di un click da ognuno, e pochi ne restano ancora scioccati. Nella societ&agrave; manca una guida sessuale utile e autorevole: gli insegnanti e i preti negano oppure reprimono, la cultura popolare promuove un aspetto superficiale e frivolo della sessualit&agrave;, i genitori non hanno il tempo o la forza emotiva per parlare con intelligenza del sesso, mentre la pornografia in Rete manipola perlopi&ugrave; solo gli istinti primordiali.</p>
<p>Vi sono workshop e scuole sulla sessualit&agrave; e sul tantra quasi ovunque. Ma ben poche persone vi partecipano in confronto ai milioni di persone che sono consumatori di pornografia: le parole relative al sesso sono tra le ricerche pi&ugrave; popolari su Google. Il vaso di Pandora &egrave; gi&agrave; stato aperto e il porno &egrave; destinato a rimanere tra di noi.</p>
<p>In mezzo a questo sovraccarico di input sessuali nella societ&agrave;, un certo genere di pornografia indipendente potrebbe paradossalmente rivelare un lato umano e vulnerabile, e un legame con l&rsquo;introspezione. Mentre &egrave; molto facile mostrarsi nudi in Rete o creare un sito in cui ognuno possa pubblicizzare, vendere o addirittura produrre la propria pornografia, &egrave; meno facile mostrare la nudit&agrave; dell&rsquo;anima. Io prevedo che una parte della pornografia si evolver&agrave; in questa direzione.</p>
<p>Uno dei semi in questa direzione &egrave; personificato da <a href="http://www.maylingsu.com/" target="_blank">May Ling Su</a>, una donna asiatica che, tra le altre attivit&agrave; artistiche, autoproduce materiale pornografico soprattutto con il compagno e padre del suo figlio. Lei permette ai lettori del suo blog di partecipare alla sua vita sessuale, quotidiana e interiore. Una sorta di Porno 2.0.</p>
<p>I suoi video si aprono in finestre a bassa risoluzione, permettendo allo spettatore un coinvolgimento ancora maggiore (vedere il mio articolo <a href="http://www.indranet.org/cool-hot-media-and-gender-attraction/" target="_blank">Media caldi, freddi e l&rsquo;attrazione fra i generi</a> su come media diversi modellano l&rsquo;attrazione tra i generi sessuali). Parlare di sentimenti riguardanti la pornografia e mostrare il lato vulnerabile della vita sessuale pu&ograve; essere fatto con pi&ugrave; autorevolezza da una persona che viva la propria lussuria in modo totale. Non tutti coloro che esplorano la sessualit&agrave; hanno o desiderano sviluppare le risorse interiori per usare il sesso come un carburante per la consapevolezza. Tuttavia, solo coloro che hanno percorso tutto il cammino dell&rsquo;esplorazione degli istinti possono integrare la sessualit&agrave; e la consapevolezza, e dirigersi verso lo spirituale, inteso come una via verso la nostra integrit&agrave; e verit&agrave;.</p>
<blockquote><p>Pi&ugrave; i desideri sono intensi, pi&ugrave; vi &egrave; coscienza. Per questo motivo si dice che i desideri &ldquo;salgono&rdquo;. Mentre la coscienza si evolve, anche i desideri aumentano. Quindi, pi&ugrave; l&rsquo;uomo si evolve nel tempo, nella storia e pi&ugrave; intensi diverranno i suoi desideri. Non c&rsquo;&egrave; bisogno di essere intimoriti da questo e anche non c&rsquo;&egrave; bisogno di esserne preoccupati. E&rsquo; solamente l&rsquo;indicatore di una cosa: che la luca della tua cosicenza &egrave; anche consapevole di cose che non erano conosciute nel passato. [...] Un&rsquo;altra cosa interessante &egrave; che pi&ugrave; gli oggetti dei nostri desideri sono distanti, pi&ugrave; dimenticherai te stesso. Di conseguenza nela passato era pi&ugrave; semplice tornare a te stesso di quanto non lo sia oggi. Oggi, la distanza tra la tua coscienza e gli oggetti dei tuoi desideri &egrave; molto maggiore. La distanza che devi percorrere per soddisfare i tuoi desideri &egrave; talmente distante da te stesso che il ritorno &egrave; diventato sempre pi&ugrave; difficile. Questo &egrave; il motivo per cui essere spirituali nel passato era pi&ugrave; facile. Oggi il percorso spirituale &egrave; molto pi&ugrave; difficile. C&rsquo;&egrave; un&rsquo;altra cosa: nonostante nel passato l&rsquo;essere umano poteva essere spirituale con pi&ugrave; facilit&agrave;, l&rsquo;esplosione interiore della sua spiritualit&agrave; non poteva essere cos&igrave; grande come la &egrave; oggi. Pi&ugrave; una persona ha perso la strada, pi&ugrave; grande sar&agrave; l&rsquo;esplosione interiore quando torna a casa. Osho. <em>Flight of the Alone to the Alone</em>. Rebel Publishing House. Pune. 2000. </p></blockquote>
<p>Nonostante che ogni insegnante spirituale parli dei desideri come impedimenti sul percorso verso la liberazione, molti di questi affermano realisticamente che i desideri, per loro natura, devo essere esperimentati nella vita reale. Anche se secondo Nisargadatta Maharaj &ldquo;Il perenne desiderio di piacere riflette l&#39;eterna armonia che hai dentro. Puoi vedere da te che diventi cosciente del tuo io solo quando sei preso da un conflitto tra piacere e dolore che richiede una scelta e una decisione&rdquo;, all&rsquo;affermazione di un discepolo &ldquo;L&#39;uomo comune realizza con l&#39;esperienza (bhoga) ci&ograve; che lo jogi si procura con la rinuncia (tyaga). La via del bhoga &egrave; inconsapevole e, di conseguenza, ripetitiva e protratta, mentre quella dello yoga &egrave; deliberata e intensa, e pu&ograve; essere quindi pi&ugrave; rapida.&rdquo; egli rispose:</p>
<blockquote><p>Forse le fasi di yoga e di bhoga si alternano. Prima si &egrave; bhogoin, dopo yogi, poi ancora bhogoin e di nuovo yogi. I desideri deboli possono essere rimossi dall&#39;introspezione e dalla meditazione, ma quelli intensi e ben radicati devono essere soddisfatti e bisogna assaggiarne i frutti, dolci o amari che siano. Nisargadatta Maharaj. <em>Io sono quello</em>. Astrolabio. 2001 </p></blockquote>
<p>Quindi le esperienze vanno vissute con totalit&agrave;, ma allo stesso momento necessitano di alimentare la nostra consapevolezza allo scopo di poterci osservare:</p>
<blockquote><p>Usa la mente. Ricorda. Osserva. Non sei diverso dagli altri. Le loro esperienze sono in gran parte valide anche per te. Pensa con chiarezza a profondit&agrave;, penetra nell&#39;intera struttura dei tuoi desideri e delle loro ramificazioni. Sono una delle parti pi&ugrave; importanti del tuo comportamento mentale ed emotivo e influenzano fortemente le tue azioni. Ricorda: non puoi abbandonare ci&ograve; che non conosci. Per andare oltre te stesso, devi conoscerti.&nbsp; Nisargadatta Maharaj. <em>Io sono quello</em>. Astrolabio. 2001 </p>
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<p>Bypassare i desideri non &egrave; quindi una soluzione. Alla domanda: &ldquo;E se non desidero niente, neppure il Supremo?&rdquo;, Nisargadatta rispose: &ldquo;Allora sei praticamente morto, oppure sei il Supremo.&rdquo;</p>
<p>Anche tra le femministe sono presenti posizioni a favore della pornografia. Esse hanno dato un importante contributo all&rsquo;accettazione dei bisogni sessuali femminili e hanno favorito il diffondersi di un clima di rispetto anzich&eacute; di sfruttamento. Tuttavia, persone come May Ling Su non vengono da alcuna posizione filosofica o ideologica: il loro approccio &egrave; pi&ugrave; personale e vicino all&rsquo;esperienza di ognuno. Una simile autoproduzione pornografica &ndash; in cui lei e il partner sono attori, registi e responsabili della post-produzione &ndash; permette il controllo delle proprie scelte e impedisce qualsiasi sfruttamento; inoltre, &egrave; un&rsquo;opportunit&agrave; di consapevolezza. Posso immaginare che lei si sia fatta domande come: &laquo;Cosa voglio trasmettere con questo video? Cosa mi porta a questa pratica sessuale? Come mi sento nel farla? Ero davvero in ci&ograve; che stavo facendo? Voglio davvero mostrare questo in pubblico?&raquo;, ecc. Guardare allo stesso tempo la telecamera e se stessa produce un feedback circolare in cui l&rsquo;interiore e l&rsquo;esteriore si scambiano vicendevolmente informazioni. La parte consapevole &egrave; inclusa, ma questo non impedisce il piacere dell&rsquo;atto.</p>
<p>In altri tempi, la gente poteva evitare l&rsquo;incontro con le energie sessuali piuttosto facilmente. I praticanti spirituali che volevano discendere nella propria anima si sarebbero comunque trovati di fronte a quelle energie, anche attraverso la semplice meditazione, poich&eacute; la sessualit&agrave; &egrave; un aspetto che appartiene a ogni essere umano e affiorer&agrave; in qualsiasi pratica di consapevolezza. Ma nella societ&agrave; dei giorni nostri, almeno in Occidente, &egrave; praticamente impossibile evitare l&rsquo;incontro con le energie sessuali, perch&eacute; la pressione esterna &egrave; troppo forte. I nostri desideri sono provocati e stimolati con ogni mezzo, dandoci l&rsquo;opportunit&agrave; di naufragare in acque profonde o di trovare perle nella nostra consapevolezza.</p>
<p>Una volta che otteniamo l&rsquo;oggetto dei nostri desideri, questa conquista perde valore, perch&eacute; la mente &egrave; interessata a ci&ograve; che deve ancora raggiungere; se non riconosciamo il sesso come il nostro desiderio pi&ugrave; potente, includendolo nella nostra consapevolezza, la nostra evoluzione come esseri umani non potr&agrave; spingersi molto lontano.</p>
<p>Vedi anche:</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span><a href="http://www.indranet.org/sex-black-hole/">Il buco nero del sesso</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.indranet.org/superego-orgasm-20/">L&#39;orgasmo 2.0 del superego</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.indranet.org/cool-hot-media-and-gender-attraction/">Media caldi, freddi e l&rsquo;attrazione fra i generi</a><br /> [/it] </p>
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We pretend that teenagers don't act out the sexual messages they receive or, if they do, we expect that they will be responsible and safe. Yeah, sure. We educate them in technology, we train them in sports and we prepare them to enter the highly competitive information society. However, when it has to do with sex, the most powerful energy that a teen faces, we leave the whole responsibility to them.]]></description>
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<p><em>In our present-day society, one of the most fast growing trends is the transmission of sexual imagery and sexual messages. Opinions, apart, it&#39;s just a fact.</em></p>
<p><em>We pretend that teenagers don&#39;t act out the sexual messages they receive or, if they do, we expect that they will be responsible and safe. Yeah, sure. We educate them in technology, we train them in sports and we prepare them to enter the highly competitive information society. However, when it has to do with sex, the most powerful energy that a teen faces, we leave the whole responsibility to them, resulting in earlier pregnancies and HIV infections.</em><br /> [/en][it]</p>
<p><em>Nella societ&agrave; contemporanea, una delle tendenza in maggior espansione &egrave; la trasmissione di immagini e messaggi sessuali. Opinioni a parte, &egrave; un dato di fatto e una realt&agrave; con cui fare i conti.</em></p>
<p><em>Facciamo finta che gli adolescenti non mettano in pratica i messaggi sessuali che ricevono o, se lo fanno, che siano prudenti e responsabili. Come no&#8230; li istruiamo sulla tecnologia, li alleniamo nello sport e li prepariamo a una societ&agrave; delle informazioni altamente competitiva, ma quando si tratta del sesso, l&rsquo;energia pi&ugrave; potente che gli adolescenti devono gestire, lasciamo a loro ogni responsabilit&agrave;, con il risultato di gravidanze precoci ed infezioni da HIV.</em><br /> [/it]<span id="more-78"></span>[en]</p>
<p>In our present-day society, one of the most fast growing trends is the transmission of sexual imagery and sexual messages. Opinions, apart, it&#39;s just a fact. This trend, just like all others, has been manipulated for money, so every advertisement, popular magazine and of course the Internet competes to grab our attention and provoke our senses.</p>
<p>Sexual messages have a stronger impact on people&rsquo;s minds than perhaps any other and the most searched words on search engines are sex related ones. This phenomenon can become both an opportunity to free people from hypocrisies and cultural conditioning or just an expression of squalid decadence. During their teenage years, boys and girls start to secrete powerful sexual hormones in their bodies and they are naturally going to be more and more interested in sex as well as insecure about their just discovered sexualities. Their thoughts are influenced by the sexual imagery that is available everywhere. Puberty is happening earlier and earlier, due to hormones in food, phthalates (a component found in many plastic products that mimic the female hormone estrogen) and I guess because of increased mental stimulation about sex as well.</p>
<p>At the same time, we pretend that teenagers don&#39;t act out the sexual messages they receive or, if they do, we expect that they will be responsible and safe. Yeah, sure. We educate them in technology, we train them in sports and we prepare them to enter the highly competitive information society. However, when it has to do with sex, the most powerful energy that a teen faces, we leave the whole responsibility to them. Nobody prepares them. Schools don&#39;t give any useful sex education, and few parents talk openly with their children, if they ever have the time anyway.</p>
<p>When I refer to useful information I mean: how to correctly use a condom, how to sense, recognize and express their yes&#39;s and no&#39;s clearly, how to respect themselves and others, how not to be pressured by peers in their decisions, how to be reassured about masturbation and sexual fantasies. Those are some of the subjects that typically act like black holes: as soon as the subjects of condoms and masturbation are approached, the discourse is being sucked into a dense hole that doesn&#39;t allow any light to shine.</p>
<p>When I read the results of the polls about sexuality, I am always surprised by the basic ignorance of people and in particular young people around sex-related issues. As much as youngsters are exposed, in an active or passive way, to sexual messages, they remain just as ignorant of the most basic information about pregnancy and safe sex. A phenomenon that was typical of third world countries, early teen pregnancies, is now on the rise in western countries. HIV infections are now mainly spreading among young people.</p>
<p>Any teen can find any sex video in the internet, but how many videos are present that show clearly how to wear a condom? Those video should be broadcasted in every school and on every television channel. A few of them are available on YouTube, but these are mostly intended to entertain rather then educate. However, I&#39;m afraid that people who get early pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases are not the most assiduous YouTube viewers. Every school, hotel, pub, club and concert hall should give free or cheap condoms.</p>
<p>Not knowing how to, not wanting to or being ashamed to wear or asking to wear a condom shouldn&#39;t be an issue in the 21st century. However, the crude reality is that we have a large number of deadly sexually transmitted disease infections and unwanted pregnancies, while sadly the Catholic Church still condemns condoms along any other form of artificial contraception as representing &quot;the culture of death&quot;.</p>
<p>See also:</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.indranet.org/superego-orgasm-20/"><span>Superego orgasm 2.0</span></a></p>
<p> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;"><a href="http://www.indranet.org/cool-hot-media-and-gender-attraction/">Cool, hot media and gender attraction</a></span>
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<p>Nella societ&agrave; contemporanea, uno dei trend che si sta pi&ugrave; diffondendo &egrave; la trasmissione di immagini e messaggi sessuali. Opinioni a parte, &egrave; un dato di fatto e una realt&agrave; con cui fare i conti. Tale tendenza, come sempre, &egrave; stata manipolata per soldi, quindi la pubblicit&agrave;, le riviste e ovviamente Internet sono in competizione tra loro per catturare la nostra attenzione e provocare i nostri sensi.</p>
<p>I messaggi sessuali hanno sulla mente delle persone un impatto probabilmente pi&ugrave; forte di tutti gli altri, e le parole collegate al sesso risultano le pi&ugrave; cercate nei motori di ricerca. Questo fenomeno pu&ograve; essere sia un&rsquo;opportunit&agrave; per liberare le persone dalle ipocrisie e dal condizionamento culturale, sia un&rsquo;espressione di squallida decadenza. Durante l&rsquo;adolescenza, ragazzi e ragazze cominciano a secernere nel corpo potenti ormoni sessuali che aumenteranno naturalmente il loro interesse verso il sesso, ma allo stesso tempo li renderanno molto insicuri di questa identit&agrave; sessuale appena scoperta. I loro pensieri sono influenzati dalle immagini sessuali visibili ovunque. Alla pubert&agrave; si arriva sempre pi&ugrave; precocemente, a causa degli ormoni contenuti nel cibo, degli ftalati (una componente di molti prodotti plastici, dagli effetti simili agli ormoni femminili estrogeni) e anche, a mio parere, della crescente esposizione a stimoli sessuali mentali.</p>
<p> Allo stesso tempo, facciamo finta che gli adolescenti non mettano in pratica i messaggi sessuali che ricevono o, se lo fanno, che siano prudenti e responsabili. Come no&#8230; li istruiamo sulla tecnologia, li alleniamo nello sport e li prepariamo a una societ&agrave; delle informazioni altamente competitiva, ma quando si tratta del sesso, l&rsquo;energia pi&ugrave; potente che gli adolescenti devono gestire, lasciamo a loro ogni responsabilit&agrave;. Nessuno li prepara. Le scuole non forniscono alcuna utile educazione sessuale, e pochi genitori parlano apertamente con i figli, se mai ne hanno il tempo.</p>
<p> Quando dico &ldquo;informazioni utili&rdquo;, intendo: come usare correttamente un preservativo; come sentire, riconoscere ed esprimere chiaramente i propri &ldquo;s&igrave;&rdquo; o &ldquo;no&rdquo;; come rispettare se stessi e gli altri; come decidere senza farsi condizionare dalle pressioni dei coetanei; come essere rassicurati su temi quali la masturbazione e le fantasie sessuali. Questi sono alcuni argomenti che in genere rappresentano dei veri e propri buchi neri: non appena si parla di preservativi o di masturbazione, la conversazione cade in un buco oscuro dove non filtra alcuna luce.</p>
<p> Quando leggo i risultati dei sondaggi sulla sessualit&agrave;, sono sempre sorpreso dalla grande ignoranza della gente, in particolari dei giovani, sui temi sessuali. Bench&eacute; i giovani siano esposti, in modo attivo o passivo, a un&rsquo;enorme quantit&agrave; di messaggi sessuali, essi restano fondamentalmente ignoranti su temi come la gravidanza o il sesso sicuro. Un fenomeno che era tipico dei paesi del Terzo Mondo, la gravidanza all&rsquo;inizio dell&rsquo;adolescenza, si sta diffondendo nei Paesi occidentali. Le nuove infezioni da HIV oggi riguardano soprattutto i giovani.</p>
<p> Qualsiasi teenager &egrave; in grado di trovare un video sessuale nella rete, ma quanti video esistono che mostrano chiaramente come mettere un preservativo? Video del genere dovrebbero essere trasmessi in ogni scuola e in tutti i canali televisivi. Alcuni di essi sono visibili su YouTube, ma il loro scopo &egrave; pi&ugrave; di divertire che di educare. E comunque, temo che i casi di gravidanza precoce o di malattie sessualmente trasmesse non riguardino solo i frequentatori assidui di YouTube. Ogni scuola, hotel, pub e sala da concerti dovrebbe distribuire preservativi gratis o a poco prezzo.</p>
<p>Vergognarsi di chiedere o di mettere un preservativo, oppure non volerlo o saperlo fare, non dovrebbero essere problemi del ventunesimo secolo. Invece, la cruda realt&agrave; &egrave; che abbiamo un grande numero di malattie mortali sessualmente trasmesse e di gravidanze indesiderate, mentre la Chiesa Cattolica ancora condanna i preservativi e altre forme di contraccezione artificiale come espressioni della &ldquo;cultura della morte&rdquo;.</p>
<p>Vedi anche</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.indranet.org/superego-orgasm-20/">L&#39;orgasmo 2.0 del superego</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.indranet.org/cool-hot-media-and-gender-attraction/">Media caldi, freddi e l&rsquo;attrazione fra i generi</a></p>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jul 2007 09:40:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ivo Quartiroli</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are many good reasons for saying that orgasms are good. But... Having "ordinary" orgasms seems not to be enough anymore. Clitoral orgasm is just for beginners. G-spot orgasm, trigasm, multiple orgasms and squirting are all musts now for a woman. Men usually don't have any problem reaching an orgasm so the frontier for them is to become multi-orgasmic; having a 30-minute orgasm or reaching a prostate orgasm. Oh yes and than orgasms should of course be simultaneous.
Orgasms haven’t moved much from the space they always had in our psyche. In the past (and in part nowadays too) they were confined to the controlling superego in the forms of prohibitions, inhibitions and judgments; now they are still in the superego, they just disguised themselves as "have-to", "the right kind", "how many".]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a title="&lt;h1&gt;&lt;a xhref=&quot;http://www.indranet.org/?attachment_id=56&quot;&gt;Orgasm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;" href="http://www.indranet.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/orgasm.jpg"><img title="&lt;h1&gt;&lt;a xhref=&quot;http://www.indranet.org/?attachment_id=56&quot;&gt;Orgasm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;" src="http://www.indranet.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/orgasm.thumbnail.jpg" border="0" alt="&lt;h1&gt;&lt;a xhref=&quot;http://www.indranet.org/?attachment_id=56&quot;&gt;Orgasm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;" hspace="12" width="110" align="left" /></a>There are many good reasons for saying that orgasms are good. They feel good. When a person has an orgasm with a partner, they trust the partner enough to release their control for a while and be taken over by an overwhelming energy.</p>
<p>Orgasms make us vulnerable; they show our intensity and we can let the other hear our deepest screams of pleasure. As a man, it&#8217;s beautiful to see and feel the shakti energy of a woman as she has an orgasm. Orgasms trigger the release of many hormones, among them oxytocin that induces feelings of love and bonding. They are good for health and circulation; they can start in the body but expands to the soul, or vice versa, representing a holistic experience for the person. Everybody could list more benefits for themselves.</p>
<p>But&#8230; Having &#8220;ordinary&#8221; orgasms seems not to be enough anymore. Clitoral orgasm is just for beginners. G-spot orgasm, trigasm, multiple orgasms and squirting are all musts now for a woman. Men usually don&#8217;t have any problem reaching an orgasm so the frontier for them is to become multi-orgasmic; having a 30-minute orgasm or reaching a prostate orgasm. Oh yes and than orgasms should of course be simultaneous.</p>
<p><span id="more-57"></span> I have always loved to experiment and to share intimately and deeply with a partner. However, up until a few years ago, when there wasn&#8217;t yet any definition of those different kinds of orgasms, we just felt free to experiment with our bodies and sensations in a playful and passionate way. We were moving from one position to another and from one sensation to another, guided by the gods Eros and Aphrodite.</p>
<p>Now we are required to look for those kinds of orgasms, define and maybe even count them. &#8220;Honey did you get that g-spot squirt or was the air-conditioner spilling water&#8221;? Cosmopolitan, Men&#8217;s Health and other magazines are efficient in telling readers the hot sex trends and the tips that can transform everybody into Gods and Goddesses in the bedroom. That sells!</p>
<p>Nevertheless, if we don&#8217;t let our controlling mind relax and if we don&#8217;t surrender every goal while having sex, we can&#8217;t reach deeper states. There are experiences in life for example: meditation, falling asleep, even defecating or becoming spiritually enlightened, that happen more easily when we are not overly interfering as personalities with goals, when we just let ourselves go. Every woman knows that the harder she tries to have an orgasm more difficult it becomes.</p>
<p>Of course, orgasms can be sparked mechanically as well in many ways. Sex toys are there for that. Nothing wrong with a couple &#8220;work-out&#8221; orgasm or with sex toys, they can be lot of fun and a great way to get to know our bodies. However, the bliss of being open to Eros is mostly a receptive experience that is being transformed in our culture into a goal-oriented &#8220;have to&#8221;. Eros can&#8217;t guide and transport us anymore, we want to be guided by the how-to&#8217;s, as if sex was a technical manual.</p>
<p>Orgasms haven’t moved much from the space they always had in our psyche. In the past (and in part nowadays too) they were confined to the controlling superego in the forms of prohibitions, inhibitions and judgments; now they are still in the judging superego, they just disguised themselves as &#8220;have-to&#8221;, &#8220;the right kind&#8221;, &#8220;how many&#8221;.<br />
I can predict that more new orgasms will be &#8220;discovered&#8221;: the mind orgasm (then the various brain areas will be more precisely distinguished from each other), the emotional orgasm, the chakra orgasm, probably somebody will write books about it all and will organize workshops. What about &#8220;discovering&#8221; a DNA orgasm?</p>
<p>In my experience, I can recall that among the best sexual experiences that I had, the presence of having an orgasm wasn&#8217;t the main ingredient. I remember a lover that had multiple orgasms while we had sex. So I was puzzled at the beginning when she told me that the best sex she ever had in her life was when we explored our sensuality in a way that didn&#8217;t bring her any big O, and not even penetration. I realized then how much emphasis we misguidedly give to orgasm.</p>
<p>Why do we give such importance to climax? One obvious reason is that it feels good but I think there are two main ingredients in how the collective mind works: one is the obsession to finish, to complete, to have a goal. This is a hard obsession that has its roots much deeper than the inception of the industrial age and that will be the subject of a future, longer article.</p>
<p>The second ingredient is, paradoxically, religious. For the Christians, sex is for reproduction, and for this to happen, at least the man needs to climax. Women&#8217;s orgasms have been ignored for long time and it is good that female orgams have come out of the closet. However, the masculine need to reach an orgasm and to have a goal have been exported to the other gender without being integrated with other dimensions. Even though most people nowadays consider sex as something that is more an emotional and pleasure-oriented connection than about having babies, the importance of the orgasm tells us that the unconscious association between sex and reproduction is still influencing our approach to sex.</p>
<p>See also:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.indranet.org/eros-and-sexualization-of-society/">Eros and the sexualization of society </a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.indranet.org/google-privacy-and-the-need-to-be-seen/">Google, privacy and the need to be seen</a></p>
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		<dc:creator>Ivo Quartiroli</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Eros was the ancient Greek God of lust and desire. Eros is an essential part of human life that has been redirected and often repressed by religions and societies. Our present-day society is probably more permeated by sexual messages than any other ages in our history and the trend is just on the rise, but Eros is yawning.]]></description>
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<p>Eros was the ancient Greek God of lust and desire. Eros is an essential part of the human experiences that has been redirected and often repressed by religions and societies. Our present-day society is probably more permeated by sexual messages than any other ages in our history and the trend is just on the rise, but Eros is yawning.</p>
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<p>Eros &egrave; il Dio greco della lussuria e del desiderio. Eros &egrave; una parte essenziale dell&#39;esperienza umana che &egrave; stata deviata e spesso repressa dalle religioni e dalle societ&agrave;. La societ&agrave; dei nostri giorni probabilmente &egrave; permeata da messaggi sessuali come nessun&#39;altra epoca nella storia e la tendenza &egrave; in espansione, ma Eros&#8230; sbadiglia.</p>
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<p>There were societies of the past where sexuality was accepted (ancient Rome, the libertines) but it was limited to a part of society. The difference is that sexual messages now are present in every corner of society.  Porn on the Internet is pervasive; advertisers use sexual images to promote no matter what kind of product. Popular magazines challenge each other on who tells more &quot;secret pleasurable spots&quot; and &quot;great tricks to become a sex God/Goddess&quot;. At the same time we miss Eros in our everyday life.</p>
<p>Eros is not just about lust but everything connected to the senses; often being present with Aphrodite, which suggests us to merge with beauty and desire. One of the obvious missing erotic connections in towns is the erotic merging quality that nature can give in terms of landscapes, smells, variety, body sensations. We limit Eros on the erotic pull between genders and we allow even that just only in certain ways.  The more this erotic pull is stimulated and stressed by the media, the more everyday sensual connection between genders is filtered by social norms that prevent the spontaneous eroticism flowing among people.</p>
<p>Apart from the couple life and from out-of-sight places where erotic energy is accepted, the flowing of erotic energy is seen by most people with suspicious or even threatening eyes. In the United States a person can even be sued for sexual harassment if he does compliment a woman.  Original, unmediated Eros is chaotic, overwhelming and challenging our identity. Erotic energy and erotic longing can even bring us to the ego dissolving bhakti, the path of devotion, threatening our established personalities as every intense lover knows. As it is overwhelming, Eros can enter in our society only in a surrogate way. When Eros is not present in everyday life, the only way it can sneak in is in its surrogate forms that are not completely accepted but are in some way safer, as sexual images and porn, which are not much more than a tension releaser.</p>
<p>Real Eros between genders and in all its forms is against our productive and competitive society. Eros is freely available and needs no tangible products. It is a help for neurosis and gives the internal fire a direction that prevents unhealthy aggressiveness as Wilhelm Reich told us. Eros&#39; kind of aggressiveness connects people whilst wars separate them. Despite the sexual revolution of few decades ago, we haven&#39;t yet integrate or accepted Eros in his authentic form and therefore it is revolutionary today as it has always been.</p>
<p>See also:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.indranet.org/superego-orgasm-20/">Superego orgasm 2.0&nbsp;</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.indranet.org/google-privacy-and-the-need-to-be-seen/">Google, privacy and the need to be seen</a></p>
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<p>Vi erano societ&agrave; del passato dove la sessualit&agrave; era accettata (tra i quali la Roma antica, i libertini), ma questa era limitata ad una piccola parte della societ&agrave;. Oggi, differentemente, la sessualit&agrave; &egrave; presente in ogni angolo della societ&agrave;.  La pornografia su internet &egrave; pervasiva, i pubblicitari utilizzano immagini sessuali per promuovere qualsiasi tipo di prodotto. Le riviste a grande diffusione si sfidano l&#39;un l&#39;altra su chi divulga pi&ugrave; &quot;punti segreti di piacere&quot; e trucchi per &quot;diventare un Dio/Dea a letto&quot;.</p>
<p>Allo stesso tempo si percepisce l&#39;assenza di Eros nella vita quotidiana. Eros non riguarda solo la lussuria ma tutto ci&ograve; che &egrave; connesso ai sensi, spesso presente insieme ad Afrodite, che ci siggerisce l&#39;unione col bello e con il desiderato. Nelle citt&agrave; una delle pi&ugrave; ovvie mancanze di connessione erotica &egrave; l&#39;amalgamarsi erotico che la natura ci pu&ograve; dare nella forma di profumi, variet&agrave;, sensazioni del corpo. Limitiamo Eros alla forza d&#39;attrazione tra i generi e anche questo lo permettiamo solo in certi modi.  Quanto pi&ugrave; l&#39;attrazione erotica viene stimolata e spinta dai media, quanto pi&ugrave; la connessione sensuale quotidiana tra i generi &egrave; filtrata da norme sociali che evitano il flusso erotico spontaneo tra le persone.</p>
<p>A parte la vita di coppia e alcuni luoghi fuori dalla vista dove l&#39;energia erotica &egrave; accettata, il fluire dell&#39;energia erotica viene accolto con sospetto o addirittura in modo minaccioso. Negli Stati Uniti una persona pu&ograve; anche essere denunciata per molestie sessuali se fa un complimento a una donna.  L&#39;Eros originale e non mediato &egrave; caotico, travolgente e mette in discussione la nostra identit&agrave;. L&#39;energia e la brama erotica possono anche portarci al sentiero di devozione della bhakti, al dissolvimento dell&#39;ego, minacciando le nostre radicate personalit&agrave; come sa qualsiasi amante profondo. In quanto travolgente, Eros pu&ograve; entrare nella nostra societ&agrave; solamente in modo surrogato.</p>
<p>Quando Eros non &egrave; presente nella vita di ogni giorno, pu&ograve; inserirsi in forma strisciante solo in forme che non sono completamente accettate ma non rappresentano una minaccia alla nostra costruita personalit&agrave;, come le immagini sessuali e la pornografia che non sono molto pi&ugrave; di un rilascio di tensione.</p>
<p>L&#39;Eros autentico tra gli essere umani ed in tutte le sue altre forme &egrave; in contraddizione alla nostra societ&agrave; produttiva e competitiva. Eros &egrave; libero e non necessita di alcun prodotto. Risolve le nevrosi e conferisce al fuoco interno una direzione che previene l&#39;aggressivit&agrave; malata come Wilhelm Reich ci ha detto. L&#39;aggressivit&agrave; di Eros connette le persone mentre le guerre le separano. Nonostante la rivoluzione sessuale di alcune decadi fa, non abbiamo ancora integrato o accettato Eros nella sua forma autentica e perci&ograve; &egrave; rivoluzionario oggi come &egrave; lo &egrave; sempre stato.</p>
<p>Vedi anche:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.indranet.org/superego-orgasm-20/">L&#39;orgasmo 2.0 del superego<br /> </a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.indranet.org/google-privacy-and-the-need-to-be-seen/">Google, la privacy e il mettersi in mostra</a> </p>
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