Thursday, December 27, 2007

Needs

If it were up to me to decide, I would add a mandatory course on psychology of love and sex to the list of high-school courses. How could we expect people to discover their psychological and physical needs just based on their experiences?
Even if they could, these experiences could be extremely painful and sometimes irreversibly harmful. Then why not educate people?
A part of this problem has to do with the fact that most of today's societies are not culturally prepared to confront some psychological facts about the nature of love and sex. This would be definitely a revolutionary move and any revolution comes with a price. But if we actually care about the psychological hygiene of our society it is inevitable. Of course, some societies just don't care about it!

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