tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7321821.post1148802234487241858..comments2023-12-13T04:18:15.075-08:00Comments on Blue Cat Blog: Varieties of subjective experienceRuss Abbotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15431389045571531450noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7321821.post-34528179680412940792008-01-01T17:45:00.000-08:002008-01-01T17:45:00.000-08:00It's also said that people aren't turned on at nud...It's also said that people aren't turned on at nudist colonies. Perhaps. And certainly whether one becomes sexually aroused depends on one's state of mind. So I would agree that the sight of female skin doesn't automatically and under all circumstances elicit a male erotic response. But when it does, I think it does so as a result of mirror neurons and the evocation in the viewer of sensations that s/he imagines in the person being seen.Russ Abbotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15431389045571531450noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7321821.post-17933741642385781142008-01-01T17:19:00.000-08:002008-01-01T17:19:00.000-08:00I wondered if suggestion and conditioning has no s...I wondered if suggestion and conditioning has no significance in this "subjective experience".<BR/>Rather than dissuade that line of rationalizing, the comment from your female friend rather encourages this lie of thinking.<BR/>I recall that in my early childhood days, most women in rural Africa dressed to barest minimal and bathed publicly at the "streams" or "rivers"<BR/>The exposure of female skin and flesh,apparently, did not seem to evoke those experiences.<BR/>Outcries were raised when western missionaries and tourists with an un-similar conditioning could not resist these "exposures" and tried to capture the images for the western audience.<BR/>"Ads" then would make use of the virile muscular powerful manhood, and such reasoning appeared to have been exploited in advertisement for the stout drinks back then( from women too!)<BR/>Some groups still relate strong ,muscular men with some sexually-evoking thoughts and I am told in slavery and segregation days,some associated big black men ( like myself ?) with such feelings,and some of our youth and the gym industry may share this line of thought.<BR/>In conclusion, may be, it is true what you say or,maybe, what is in our minds have been planted.legroshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09716719582372366544noreply@blogger.com