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2008 04 10 | journal
The totality of what a person is cannot be summed up in only one small part of the whole. To say a man is not a man, for example, because he refrains from sexual acts, is short-sighted at best and narrow of focus to boot. Freud may have had a point in saying that the only unnatural sexuality in a person is when one engages in no sexual activity at all, but I feel he had a more than pronounced narrow perspective on what constitutes human psychology or humanity.
Mankind is given much more than organs of sexualness; we are given reasoning and creative minds and the ability to speak, and these make us as much human as our generative parts do.
We are all too apt, and by we I mean the species, to compartmentalise ourselves, our lives, and the world around us. We want to divorce science from art, technology from nature, the organic from the industrial, but all these things are part of who we are, what we’ve been, and what we can become. They all need each other, depend on each other, in order to function fully - like all the parts of a human creature.