wrong relationship with everything, beginning with food and
mother and ending in women, alcohol, and drugs.
       The first symptom of his fall to original sin that a man
notices is a gross thickening of the flesh and the awakening
of puzzling and often embarrassing sexual lust. He becomes
acutely aware of why mankind’s need to clothe itself started
with the fig leaf. Having fallen first to the charms of for-
bidden food, he now falls under the spell of forbidden sex-
ual experiences. They build up his pride to such a pitch that
he loses all consciousness of what these sexual experiences
are doing to him. He feels like a conquering hero as he goes
from one conquest to another, totally unaware that in the
process, he is becoming either a cowardly, angry wimp or
a violent, woman-violating brute. He feels himself to be the
monarch of all he surveys (pollutes), and the king can do
no wrong.
       The kind of man who hungers for such knowledge pres-
sures a woman unmercifully to give herself up to his use of
her. Prideful men feel that the only way they can “complete”
themselves is by violating women for their ego gratification.
The women who give in to their blandishments do so from
a love/hate compulsion and get their revenge by making the
men’s lives, and those of their children, a misery.
       So you see, there is no future in food and sex abuse. It
leads only to a downward transcendence of self, to endless
pain and perversions. Each gratified perversion “saves” us
from the pain of guilt and awakens new, stranger sensations
that drive us to seek out kinkier partners for kinkier sex all
the way to hell.
       It simply does not pay to see food and sex as our

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