Fontaine
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Has nothing to do with a "basic urge" being denied. There's solid evidence you can be a happy male without romance and sex. (2000 years of Christian saints, priests, abbots, monks, old maids and old bachelors).
It has something to do with the best distraction out there being denied. Distraction for what? The horror and hopelessness of the human condition. We are bodies condemned to decay, die in often terrible conditions and be quickly forgotten. Blaise Pascal wrote that most things men occupy themselves with, the company of women notably, is a transparent cope to avoid thinking about death. Romance is undoubtedly the thing that can occupy your mind the best to avoid thinking about your future demise. Also see terror management theory.
It has something to do with the best distraction out there being denied. Distraction for what? The horror and hopelessness of the human condition. We are bodies condemned to decay, die in often terrible conditions and be quickly forgotten. Blaise Pascal wrote that most things men occupy themselves with, the company of women notably, is a transparent cope to avoid thinking about death. Romance is undoubtedly the thing that can occupy your mind the best to avoid thinking about your future demise. Also see terror management theory.