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Originally posted by HKCavalier:

Sex sells not because "it's what guys want," it sells because it's man's favorite method of covering up "what guys DON'T want," i.e.: to feel their loneliness, abandonment and powerlessness. Sex as anesthesia. Sex in the media doesn't take away our feelings of loneliness, abandonment and powerlessness, it merely obscures these feelings while keeping them in play and THAT is why we buy whatever the sex is selling: to fill the void.



This, presumably, is why rich, powerful, succesful men have throughout history had so little interest in sex.

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Originally posted by Bytemite:
I think it could be argued that being rich, powerful, and successful may have absolutely no bearing on how lonely, abandoned, and powerless a man might FEEL at the top.

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Originally posted by Bytemite:
I think it could be argued that being rich, powerful, and successful may have absolutely no bearing on how lonely, abandoned, and powerless a man might FEEL at the top.

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Can you actually provide an argument that the average Chinese Emperor or Turkish Sultan felt as lonely, abandoned and powerless as, say, the average plantation slave, fresh off the boat from Africa?

Because if not, that suggests that the amount of wealth, power, and success someone has, does have an effect on how lonely, abandoned and powerless they feel.

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