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David Guttenfelder/Associated Press
Who ever thought that ED would ever
become a factor in North Korean diplomacy or that Dr. Ruth might be suggested as a special envoy to the newly chosen successor to Kim Jong-il, his son Kim Jong-un? This was the substance of New York Times science reporter William Broad’s
recent piece in the Sunday Review section of the paper (“North Korea’s Performance Anxiety,” NYT, 5/5/12). “Today, the psychosexual lens helps explain
why North Korea, in addition to dire poverty and other crippling woes, faces
international giggles over it inability to ‘get it up,’” Broad comments about
North Korea’s recent failed missile launch. Later he writes, “A psychoanalyst
might see the shift from a blast off to a blast as weird kind of substitute
gratification.” Plainly the North Koreans are not practicing the kind of
sensate focus techniques that Masters and Johnson proposed in response to
impotence problems. Under the theory that the naked will is useless in sexual
matters, the Masters and Johnson approach involves taking the focus off the
erection. Then there are the drugs like Viagra and Cialis which are used to
take care of the physiological aspect of ED. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to realize that
psychology alone may not explain the problems the North Korean’s have been
experiencing. “A move to highly enriched uranium—or a mixture of the two bomb
fuels known as a composite core—would let North Korea expand its ways of
shaking the earth and perhaps, one day, of mounting warheads atop missiles to
intimidate neighbors.” Kinsey was the Clausewitz of sexology and were he still
alive today Harvard professor Samuel Huntington could easily have been called
the Masters and Johnson of international affairs. But it’s unclear if either
Clausewitz or Masters and Johnson, more or less Brezezinski or Shere Hite could
find a solution to North Korea’s particular brand of dysfunction.
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Tuesday, May 8, 2012
North Korean Diplomacy and ED
Labels:
Brezezinski,
Clausewitz,
King Jong-un,
Kinsey,
Masters and Johnson,
Shere Hite
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