Volkmar Sigusch Quotes

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“The sexual revolution of the 1960s was mostly a movement of young people. I felt that the so-called "free relationships" were overrated.”
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There will be other forms in addition to our classic marriage. One is already looming on the horizon: polyamory, or having more than one intimate partner.

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The traits of our sexual culture are still speechlessness, loneliness, violence and not enough desire and love.

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“You're married to a woman who has no objection to another woman joining the couple. Then she brings in her boyfriend. Suddenly you realize - my God! - you can love more than one person. In fact, you can love several people at the same time.”

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“It's very important to approach pedophiles and pedosexuals and offer them therapy. It's been my experience that you can reach your objective with what I would call kind-hearted, informed and enlightened patients - in the sense that they don't lose their desire, but that they no longer have physical contact with children. That would be the goal.”

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“Key feature of sexual revolution is the large-scale publication and commercialization of details that were once secret. Sexuality has been trivialized. The interesting thing about this is that exaggerated portrayals apparently destroy desire more effectively than any repression.”

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Just go to an auto show, and you'll see all the signs of sexual arousal in the men: shiny eyes, tremors, sex flush. An acute example of the need for professional sex research.

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“Good sex can be anything, including dirty.”

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“When it comes to sexuality, people like to tell lies. It's only when it comes to money that they lie more.”

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“I will always be referred to as a theorist, but I was only a fellow traveller with a degree.”

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“We are all potential murderers, and we are all potential rapists and abusers.”

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“There are pedosexuals who, even if the court forces them to go into treatment, do not pursue it or cannot pursue it.”

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Fantasies have to remain dirty. Cleanliness, scrupulousness and rationality are poison for eroticism.

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“It's important for a couple to talk about their sexual preferences. On the other hand, the aura of the mysterious should be preserved.”

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“I maintain that we are still a largely ignorant society when it comes to sex. We speak incorrectly and superficially about sexuality. And when you talk about it too much, you run the risk of destroying its mystery.”

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“With an intelligent couple, it ought to be possible for the husband or wife to look for satisfaction outside the relationship - while always taking the partner into consideration, meaning acting openly but still discreetly.”

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“For people who are desperate and searching, sexuality on the Internet offers an incredible release.”

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“Internet sexuality shows that we're becoming more and more self-involved. I'm talking about self-sex.”

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“The sexual revolution produced cultural convulsions that were unparalleled in the 20th century. The female sex was historically sexualized and required to have orgasms for the first time. Sexual "deviants," particularly homosexuals, achieved partial emancipation.”

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“The things that could be derived from the sexual sphere - happiness, endless fun and the end of capitalism - were grossly overestimated. The symbolic overglorification was downright unbearable.”

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“Most pornographic images are simply too repulsive.”

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“The social problem is that we haven't come up with any alternative models. Our culture hasn't developed an ars erotica. Think, for example, of conditions in India or in Japanese culture and of how the erotic has been cultivated there. They're not as clinical and rabbit-like as we are.”

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“Perhaps the couple got married at 25 and now they're 45 and this is an option. And if a couple is still together, or perhaps finds its way back together, I like to say that it's forever. They belong together, it's a good fit, it's the right pairing. It almost gives me goose bumps.”

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“Sexual desire declines after four to seven years. That's been proven.Because it's the most compatible with our spiritual origins. Father, mother, small family - that's the way we've developed our souls, the way we've become, and the way we feel safe, protected and loved.”

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I'm reminded of a female patient who was particularly aroused by the shape of her husband's shoulder. And this hint of perversion should ideally remain a secret for both partners.

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“Some 95 percent of all sexual contact still occurs in permanent relationships. That's an impressive number.”

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“Most young people seem to be behaving very intelligently: They look at things once in a while, but then they find it so idiotic and uncool that they just look away again. That is, provided they're not growing up in a family in which a drunk father is already watching pornos in the morning.”

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“I have the utmost respect for people who are asexual. I didn't believe that they existed at first. But they do exist, and their numbers are growing.”

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“Sexuality is pushed back more and more and people try to replace what they've lost with other forms of excitement.”

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“There are young men who want thrills but no longer value sex, so they do completely different things, including aggressive things.”

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“The sexual revolution of the 1960s was mostly a movement of young people. I felt that the so-called "free relationships" were overrated.”