5 Quotes & Sayings By Jesse Bering

Jesse Bering is an evolutionary psychologist, and professor of cognitive science at Queen's University in Canada. Bering's research is focused on the evolution and psychology of the Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung’s theories of personality, with a particular focus on the study of human sexual behaviour and developmental psychology. He has published over 150 research papers, and has written two books including Sperm Wars: Infidelity and the Men Who Stray (2009).

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In adopting a patently false but stubbornly clung-to mythology of human sexuality that makes demons out of natural drives, we've entered a stage of moral sickness, not of moral health. Jesse Bering
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The psychologist Charles Moser, for example, pointed out that those inclined to divide the "sane" from the "insane" in terms of frequency of sex and intensity of desires overlook the possibility that sex itself may be the most meaningful part of a person's life, "which appropriately can take precedence over other activities". Jesse Bering
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Someone could be paraphilic in both his erotic target and his favorite sex act. I mean, really, any pellismophilic nebulophile (someone whose most passionate moments involve masturbating in the foggy mist while listening to a person stutter) can see that. Jesse Bering
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Being poised to shatter the adaptive illusion of God is arguably one of the most significant turning points our species has ever faced in its relatively brief 150, 000-year history. The belief instinct may never be completely deprogrammed in our animal brains, but by understanding it for what it is rather than subscribing uncritically to the intuitions it generates, we can distance ourselves from an adaptive system that was designed, ultimately, to keep us hobbled in fear. Jesse Bering