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INHIBITED SEXUAL DESIRE: ISD DEVELOPMENT
ISD can also develop as the result of stress, illness, reactions to past sexual traumas like rape or incest, and many other physiological or psychological factors.
Intense feelings of guilt, blame, fear, and frustration almost always accompany ISD. At times, often after another series of fights about sex, a temporary improvement does occur. All too often, however, this change is transient, and the pattern of increasing rejection and avoidance evolves again. Too frequently, ISD sufferers are bitterly accused of being "frigid," of "not being a man" or a woman, of having affairs or being homosexual, or of simply not loving their partners. Those accused may shrink back in silence and begin to doubt themselves even more, or may in turn accuse their partners of being pushy, demanding, insensitive "sex fiends." But ISD, as one sex therapist put it, has two victims and no villains.
As you can see, ISD is a complex and varied condition. People experience it in different ways, to different degrees, and for different reasons. Homosexual men and women as well as heterosexuals can and do suffer from it. More young people than old complain of it, and more women than men are likely to admit to it. Many people who have it don't know it, and may initially seek professional help for other sexual difficulties or relationship problems.
Experts themselves don't always agree on who has ISD and who doesn't, sometimes calling the problem hypoactive sexual desire, sexual apathy, or low libido, as well as ISD. As a result, exact figures on how many people suffer from ISD are hard to come by.
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SEXUALITY DEFINED: PAGAN-POLYTHEISTIC INFLUENCES - ROMAN SEXUALITY
Although there is reasonable agreement among most authorities regarding the characteristics of Greek sexuality, Roman customs and values are a matter of considerable debate. Conventional wisdom holds that the Roman society was as sexually promiscuous as the Greek; and it is popularly believed that the collapse of the Roman Empire was due, in no small part, to the sexual excesses of its citizens (Canter, 1963). These views have been challenged, however, on the grounds that the sexual excesses of Roman society have been greatly exaggerated and that the accounts of these events are biased and inaccurate (Bullough, 1976). Whatever the actual case, certainly Roman culture was more complicated and multidimensional than Greek society. The Roman Empire endured for a relatively long period of time; and, whereas the Greeks retained their beliefs and customs, Roman culture changed in the light of the changing empire and in the face of continuous exposure to other cultures.
The Romans, of course, shared the polytheistic religion of the Greeks, as well as the sexuality of their deities. Thus, they shared the Grecian religious approval of sex. As Grimal states:
To love was to obey the gods and achieve one of the requisites of the human condition. Chastity could be required by religious rites in certain cases, but it was not a good thing in itself; not even a desirable thing; it was rather an impairment of what was good and desirable for among the gifts of the gods to man, love is always to be found. [Grimal, 1967, p. xiii]
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