Wow, you're good. Merriam Webster says it's a non-libidinal attraction. I like yours better, given how sex is conflated with everything but the kitchen sink. Yours is all but a definition of pedophilia, dependence [on the child, unconsciously the parental figure] combined with needing to overpower [have sex with] the [safe] source of the pedophile's love [the child, unconsciously the parental figure]. Where cross dressing comes in, I can't say. Probably inadequate bonding with a father. It's encouraging that the world is getting it. Nowhere near enough, but it's beginning to filter down. I was surprised at how father and girl inferiority was tackled head on by even Bollywood. People like Koenigsberg are discussing it. On this list, you have a clue. More than a clue obviously. That's it. See you tomorrow probably. ----- Original Message ----- From: Mike Geary To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: 11/30/2005 9:18:36 AM Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: LUMBERJACKS and Arabs IN BLACK DRESSES anaclisis n : (psychoanalysis) relationship marked by strong dependence on others; especially a libidinal attachment to e.g. a parental figure Source: WordNet ® 2.0, © 2003 Princeton University ----- Original Message ----- From: Andy Amago To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ; lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2005 7:45 AM Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: LUMBERJACKS and Arabs IN BLACK DRESSES Anaclisis is not in Merriam Webster online. Anaclitic is. "Of, relating to, or characterized by the direction of love toward an object (as the mother) that satisfies nonsexual needs (as hunger)." From Koenigsberg: "The psychoanalyst Franco Fornari observed that the enemy is experienced as a "force that destroys our love object." This is why men see war as a duty and consider war to be "one of the basic human values." Those who make war, Fornari explains, are not driven by a hate need, but by "a love need." Soldiers are willing to sacrifice themselves in order to preserve "the common love object."" [the flag, motherland, fatherland] Take home message: people are love starved. They take it where they can find it. They're looking for love in all the wrong places. In that Bollywood movie I saw (corroborated from other sources), the birth of a girl is mourned. In India girls are rejected for not being sons. I can't imagine what that does to sexual identity and sexuality. Arabs are as macho as Indians and their boys want to be girls. The West is not much different, as you point out. Not just fraternities, but the military too. And the whole world rejects age and embraces youth, the last stop of which is pedophilia. Take fear and combine it with the need for love, and the result is pedophilia. Pedophilia produces more warped people and the cycle goes on forever. It's too bad more people don't raise issues such as you've raised, Mike, but they don't. Obviously these issues cut too close to the bone. Bring on the jokes. And hail to you Mike, for making these connections. Main Entry: an·a·clit·ic Pronunciation: "a-n&-'kli-tik Function: adjective Etymology: Greek anaklitos, verbal of anaklinein to lean upon, from ana- + klinein to lean -- more at LEAN : of, relating to, or characterized by the direction of love toward an object (as the mother) that satisfies nonsexual needs (as hunger) ----- Original Message ----- From: Mike Geary To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: 11/30/2005 12:50:13 AM Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: LUMBERJACKS and Arabs IN BLACK DRESSES Yes, Julie, your concerns are the concerns of all intelligent people. The Church's conflating of homosexuality with pedophilia is not only disturbing, it's an insult to pedophiles everywhere. Having once been accused of being a "purported" pedophiliac by none other than the gracious David Myers, I feel qualified to speak for pedophiliacs everywhere. Pedophiliacs are not necessarily homosexuals nor are homosexuals necessarily pedophiliacs -- no more so than heterosexuals are. I speak for pedophiles everywhere when I say: give me your YOUNG -- your males, your females. I need to have my way with people, but I don't feel adequate enough to deal with adults. I find the naive sexually attractive in that way. As for the UAE police -- they've obviously never belonged to any university fraternities. What would fraternities do without drag fashion shows? Boys will be girls, as they say. Send the UAE to college! A little learning is a deranging thing. Along these lines, let me say that I feel so sorry for women who have so little testosterone that they can only live normal lives. There should be testosterone supplements for women to take so that they too can experience the joys of anaclisis. Mike Geary Memphis