What do the other people like me feel about sex?

You don't realize that I am actively seeking to avoid talking to you. If you want, we can either change the conversation to something more substantial such as film, ethics, philosophy, poetry, literature, and etc. or you can just leave me alone. I am not the kind of man to hold grudges, but I have no idea why you're stalking me and bringing back a discussion we had over a week ago. I haven't even been thinking about you until you randomly jumped into a discussion in order to derogate me. Our past quarrel is done and over with, so just let go of the vitriolic attitude, please. I hold no resent towards you, but why can't you just let the damn thing go?

At this point I want nothing but to either be left alone or a change of topic without bringing up personal shit. Can you talk about certain topics in an impersonal manner?

Finally, if you want, I can tell you my issue with Sade-like characters in an impersonal manner. We can debate it if you'd like. Hell, you don't even have to agree and can play devil's advocate.

Sade-like characters tend to cling to ephemeral feelings of pleasure as if it is defining factor in life. They want to only satiate their ravenous desires, but it continuously adds up. While you may consider it an illusion, I think there are more noble goals in life such as seeking to help nature or animals (e.g., volunteer at humane societies), expand one's awareness through watching/reading/listening to meaningful/powerful artwork, and so forth. I am not saying that seeking pleasurable experience is inherently bad, but I have issue with those who define their identities based off the desire for more and more visceral, physical pleasures.

Overall, what I am arguing is there are a benefits to prolonged periods of abstinence.

The same is true for China during many time points. Eunuchs gave a continuity outside the family based power structure/s, and I would argue they could see things with more clarity. Edward Feser had a quote relevant to this:

Aquinas [argues]... one indulging in it tends to have greater difficulty than he otherwise would in thinking coolly and dispassionately about matters of sex. He tends toward “self-love” in that he is strongly inclined to make his own subjective feelings and desires the measure by which to judge any proposed standards of morality, rather than letting objective moral standards be the measure by which to judge his feelings and desires.

That woman is mainly a misanthrope because polyamory is looked down on. If anything, there is more reason to find society's treatment and objectification of women as sex objects more degrading and disgusting. Anyways, sexual frustrations, to me, is a silly reason to be a misanthrope. It's ridiculous to reify it as a reason for being a misanthrope, don't you agree?

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