Hello folks! I wrote an article.
I'm not a blogger (not yet anyway), and I haven't written much on this subject before. But I recently got back to America after a long time abroad, and I'm feeling unusually frustrated and pissed off (re-encountering all the issues that made me want to leave this country in the first place). And this article just kind of... came out of me, spontaneously.
Since I have a girlfriend now (in China), I no longer feel like I'm in the category of dudes I describe in the article. However, being back in the USA reminds me of how things used to be, and I ain't forgot where I came from. I want to help fix the problem for the long term, on a society-wide scale.
By the way, I know the second half of it might come across as whiny and MRA-ish. But nevertheless, it's something I feel strongly about, and I think that reading this might help to open the minds of some of the more moderate feminists. We might be able to pull some of them back to sanity. Obviously some of them are hopeless - but some of them can be reasoned with. I'm thinking of posting this article on a leftist/progressive forum, and seeing if I can produce the faintest glimmer of an "aha" in some of them.
Anyway, here it is! Tell me what you think.
Title: Ending Violence through Sexual Healing
What do mass shooters and suicide bombers have in common?
They're almost always men - men with unusually intense levels of sexual frustration.
Recruiters for radical Islamist organizations, such as al-Qaeda and the ISIL, pray on lonely, sexually frustrated young men, and channel their anger into religious conquest.
This is common knowledge. It's no secret. Comedians make fun of it all the time. Bill Maher has even referred to all the "backed-up sperm" in the male populations of Muslim countries as an "Islamic bomb." (It rhymes with "atomic", heheh, get it?)
If you want to know what the ISIL truly is, just think of it as the ultimate mass-conscious manifestation of global male sexual frustration.
The Collective Consciousness of humanity is like a balloon. When you press down in one spot, pressure increases in other spots.
Feminism is pressing down on men in the western world, and that pressure is popping back out in the Muslim world.
Sexuality is like a river - it MUST flow. If it's dammed up, it will pop out somewhere else, in a more corrupt, unhealthy form.
But what is being done about it?
What does the current guiding philosophy of western culture - Feminism - have to say about male sexual frustration?
Nothing. Not a word.
In fact, many feminists delight in it. They derive gratification from knowing that many men 'can't get laid.' They view male sexual frustration as a kind of character building experience that "softens" men, and teaches men to "stop being entitled" and to "respect women more."
But oh boy... does that NOT work.
In real life, it has the polar opposite effect. Sexual frustration doesn't make men softer - it makes them insane.
Feminists seem to have no awareness of what kind of monster they're creating when they throw up progressively more and greater obstacles to men seeking sexual gratification.
The recent slew of "new rape laws" being passed in western countries make the already nerve-wracking experience of trying to obtain real, legitimate, consensual sex with a girl into an ever-more complicated maze.
As if it weren't scary enough for a guy when he had to summon up all his courage to overcome fear of rejection. But now, thanks to these new "laws" like "Yes means Yes", he has to worry about possible legal consequences too!
Even if a guy is far from actual sex, and hasn't even physically touched a woman, he can be accused of sexual harassment... for merely trying to flirt!
And since "harassment" can easily result in termination of employment, or otherwise banishment from a social group, any attempt by a man to squeeze his way into the realm of sexuality can jeopardize his very economic survival.
With the road to sexual gratification so littered with landmines, it's no surprise that so many men have "checked out" of the game, and retreat into computers, video games, Guns n' Ammo... and authoritarian religious movements.
How on Earth did feminists and their allies ever start believing that the accumulation of unpunctuated sexual tension would be a good thing?
And the trouble didn't start recently - it goes back many decades, back to the roots of feminism.
Before the sexual marketplace underwent deregulation in the 60's and 70's, men and women had an equal balance of market power. Women held the keys to sex, and men held the keys to financial stability. It was a trade.
But when women started entering the workforce and becoming financially self-sufficient, men lost this bargaining chip. Having a stable job and the ability to provide a roof and put food on the table no longer held any leverage over women, who could now provide those essentials for themselves.
As a result, men lost sexual bargaining power, and millions of decent, morally good men found themselves totally locked out of the realm of sexuality.
A realm in which feminists fight tooth and nail to secure the maximum amount of freedom for women, while ignoring the fact that so many men don't have any access to it at all.
There are many other landmines, both social and legal, which feminism has planted in men's sexual path, and feminists seem totally unconcerned about the poverty to which they're relegating men in the sexual marketplace.
But water must flow. No dam can hold it back forever.
The ISIL, and aggressive Islam in general, are still expanding at a worryingly steady pace. It makes perfect sense: even if al-Qaeda and ISIL were formed and catalyzed by the CIA and Mossad respectively, as many researchers claim, it's still undeniable that both organizations' rank and file members, the foot soldiers of violent jihad, are not CIA agents - they're Average Joe's from the Muslim world. ISIL is drawing thousands of recruits from the sexually frustrated masses, lured in by the opportunity to feel, for the first time in their lives, a sense of power and dominance - a male need which is normally supposed to be satisfied non-destructively in the safety of the bedroom.
It's no accident that ISIL, Boko Haram, and al-Shabab all practice forced marriages and sexual slavery, and that they all commit mass kidnappings of women and girls from conquered villages, in order to supply "free nookie" to their soldiers. It's no surprise that this tactic has been so effective in recruiting lonely, frustrated dudes from all over the world to come and fight.
Feminism might be gaining victory after victory in the West, damming up the flow of life-affirming sexual energy to men - but the water must burst out somewhere, and right now it's bursting out in Syria, Iraq, Nigeria, Somalia, Pakistan, and all of those countries' neighbors. If those insurgencies are defeated and crushed militarily, the water will simply emerge somewhere else.
It will never end. Not until the dams are taken down.
What can be done about it?
If you're a woman, and you want to be part of the solution, you have two options: the Forwards option and the Backwards option.
The Backwards option involves essentially going back to the 1950's. Quit your job, voluntarily remove yourself from gainful employment, and devote the bulk of your time and energy to serious courtship with the intention for marriage. Marry a man who is of good character and possessed of classical moral virtue. Marry him, and take care of his sexual needs.
Or, you can choose the Forwards option, which is to simply share your power. You're a western woman - you've won just about everything you wanted, and mounted the western man and forced him to say uncle - now let up, and share the power you've won. Keep going to work, keep being sexually liberated, but invite the lonely man in to warm himself by your fire. Find a guy you're NOT attracted to - a nerdy, socially awkward but kind man. You know that guy who always does favors for you, but who you feel no current desire to have any romantic, not to mention sexual, relationship with? Him.
Ask him out, befriend him, and teach him something. Hang out with him. Help him get used to being around the opposite sex. Give him touch. We all need touch to be emotionally healthy. Give him a backrub. Let HIM give YOU a backrub, Help him improve his wardrobe. Help him develop confidence. Heck, make out with him, so he no longer sees physical intimacy as a fantasy world beyond his reach. Introduce him to sexuality so he can begin to attract mates on his own. Teach him how to fish - and in the mean time, give him a fish to eat so that the electrical storm in his groin no longer prevents him from concentrating on his fishing lessons.
You might be saying to yourself, "ew, I don't want to have any contact with a nerdy guy who I don't like."
That's understandable. But just remember the old saying: With great power comes great responsibility. You've won your power, and now it's time to think of the long-term good of everybody. If you engage in sexual altruism, you might stop the next mass shooter. You might stop the next ISIL recruit from heading over to Syria.
This isn't even a new idea. Many ancient cultures understood the need to make sure everyone's sexual needs are taken care of. In ancient India, there were women whose job it was to initiate young men into the realm of sexuality. This was not looked down on - it was honored. And it should be honored just the same today.
As long as this issue is not addressed, war will never end. As long as there are millions of men with no outlet for sexuality, radical Islam will continue to spread, and it just might envelop the West.
The only way to build a truly peaceful society is through sexual healing.