I thought the top of the list was self actualisation, but I think you have sense on your side there.
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j4k3@piefed.world 1 day agoIt's right there in Maslow's Hierarchy of human needs at the top of the list. It may be an aging theory, but it is admissible in many courts. A lack of sexual expression is unhealthy and harmful for all humans. The person is literally saying they are doubling down on dogma and tribalism; two of the most dangerous and toxic traits of the most animalistic and deranged humans.
So yeah, someone saying this kind of nonsense is scarcely better than someone talking about how jihad gets them close to god.
Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 1 day ago
stingpie@lemmy.world 1 day ago
From an ace perspective, the statement that sexual expression is a human need is bizarre. I don’t really know how horny regular people are, but this makes it seem like an obsession. It’s like if I said bird watching is a human need; you’d immediately assume I spend like six hours a day bird watching to think it was biologically necessary.
Holytimes@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Even ace people masturbate sexual expression is 100% a human need. Because it’s an animal need. It’s literally the foundational need that fundamentally drives animals after their survival needs are met.
Anything from a few times a week to only a few times a month is entirely normal amounts. Hell even once a day during the height of your late teens to early 20s is entirely normal.
The people who are doing it 4, 5, 6 times a day. Doing it in public bathrooms cause they can’t wait to get home. THATS the level you literally have to get to for it to be a problem.
Hell people go though cycles even. Some people can just be insanely horny and go at it two or three times as often as they normally do. Or be less horny and not even notice they haven’t masturbated once in weeks.
So as an ace person your libido might be incredibly low and or you could be lacking the desire to reproduce entirely.
That doesn’t mean you don’t get horny at /some point/. Your view of what’s normal is just incredibly skewed because the internet does a terrible job of presenting what normal and health sexual needs are.
And the only time it really gets talked about is when people like in the screen text crop up. Absolute f****** insane people who have such an insanely unhealthy relationship with sexual needs. It’d be like if you’re understanding of how much morphine you need only comes from morphine addicts.
A little bit here and there when required and healthy amounts is fine for you. Sexual expression is the same way. Do it as often as your body naturally demands of you. If that’s twice a year then so be it if it’s once a day so be it. Literally any range is healthy so long as it doesn’t drive you to do it against your own best interest.
echodot@feddit.uk 1 day ago
Well that’s why it’s called the hierarchy of needs. Not every need has to be met equally, and you have to meet all earlier needs before you can meet later needs.
E.g. if you’re currently starving to death then you probably aren’t that much bothered about achieving self-actualization, but if you have all your base needs met you’re not going to just sit around you’re going to find something to do, you’re going to be compelled to find something to do.
But if you think about it sex is a pretty important need because if people weren’t driven to it there wouldn’t be anyone to ask the question. Any species that’s not that much bothered about sex died out millennia ago, or become a panda.
tomenzgg@midwest.social 1 day ago
That sounds like you may have a skewed perspective of what a human need constitutes; I wouldn’t expect that you spend 6 hours on the act of eating.