wolfy
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Yes I agree. I think there's this intense immediate feeling any time you're really into something you're doing. Like climbing for me. A rush of adrenaline, a sense of being a part something, moving over or around, reacting to obstacles but everything seeming almost natural, like this is what I was born to do. I had sort of always associated it with sx for some reason. That intensity I guess.
I believe wolfy had talked about the idea of 'flow' before. Seems kind of similar to me.
This.
Yeah, It does remind me of it. It has interested me for a long time and I have read a lot on it. Based some work on it too.
The core characteristic of sx doms is that they are driven to develop 1-0n-1 relationships. Even though the sexual tendency is to be attracted to those you are sexually attracted to, sx instincts are also concerned with all other 1-0n-one relationships. I wonder if we could take this further and say that sx drives us to develop relationships with ideas, objects, causes, and other things - relationships that border on obsession or hobby. Do you think this is feasible? If it is, are our definitions of the sx drive too narrow?
Seems viable to me. I am sp/sx which would conflict over other things in a way I can understand. The idea seems to scale well.
These thoughts cross my mind with this hypothesis:
- People are concepts to me so it's not much of a logical stretch that other concepts would also be of intense interest.
- Sx is intimacy. You can only become intimate with intangible or inanimate objects if it's one-sided. So the question is, is this true intimacy or just a delusion?
- Why this drive for intimacy? If you consider intellectual hoarding whereby to understand is a form of control, is sx a form of emotional control?
I would see it as more of a emotional bonding, where you would be after the rush. Maybe like a parasite to a host, Venom to Spiderman.