2007-01-10, 21:37
#1
God afton.
Undertecknad har under sina strövtåg i kunskapens och idéernas rike stött på ett intressant resonemang, vilket jag, i en manifestation av stor generositet, tänkte dela med mig av.
Till grund för frågeställningen vill jag lägga några citat ur Studies in the psychology of sex, vol .3, sid. 87, 88 och 90.
Av Havelock Ellis.
Ellis har många exempel på hur ett visst mått av våld gentemot kvinnor förekommer naturligt i många olika kulturer världen över. Jag förstår hans resonemang som att detta är en av människans mest naturliga, primitiva drifter. Kanske kan man säga att kvinnomisshandel är evolutionsbiologiskt naturligt.
Det är i sammanhanget relevant att notera hur tex. våldtäkt och misshandel inom äktenskapet historiskt sett (ca 50 år sedan, i vissa frågor så lite som 20 år sedan) varit mycket annorlunda reglerade i lagstiftningen, i jämförelse med hur det ser ut i dagsläget.
Frågeställning: Är ett visst mått av våld gentemot kvinnor naturligt och ofrånkomligt? Bör samhället ha ett större mått av anpassning till den mänskliga naturen?
Kanske är det önskvärt att återgå till en sådan ordning, samhälleligt och lagstiftningsmässigt?
Undertecknad har under sina strövtåg i kunskapens och idéernas rike stött på ett intressant resonemang, vilket jag, i en manifestation av stor generositet, tänkte dela med mig av.
Till grund för frågeställningen vill jag lägga några citat ur Studies in the psychology of sex, vol .3, sid. 87, 88 och 90.
Av Havelock Ellis.
It is the same in the east
end of London. "If anyone has doubts as to the brutalities
practised on women by men," writes a London magistrate, "let him
visit the London Hospital on a Saturday night. Very terrible
sights will meet his eye. Sometimes as many as twelve or fourteen
women may be seen seated in the receiving room, waiting for their
bruised and bleeding faces and bodies to be attended to. In nine
cases out of ten the injuries have been inflicted by brutal and
perhaps drunken husbands. The nurses tell me, however, that any
remarks they may make reflecting on the aggressors are received
with great indignation by the wretched sufferers. They positively
will not hear a single word against the cowardly ruffians.
'Sometimes,' said a nurse to me, 'when I have told a woman that
her husband is a brute, she has drawn herself up and replied:
"You mind your own business, miss. We find the rates and taxes,
and the likes of you are paid out of 'em to wait on us."'"
(Montagu Williams, _Round London_, p. 79.)
end of London. "If anyone has doubts as to the brutalities
practised on women by men," writes a London magistrate, "let him
visit the London Hospital on a Saturday night. Very terrible
sights will meet his eye. Sometimes as many as twelve or fourteen
women may be seen seated in the receiving room, waiting for their
bruised and bleeding faces and bodies to be attended to. In nine
cases out of ten the injuries have been inflicted by brutal and
perhaps drunken husbands. The nurses tell me, however, that any
remarks they may make reflecting on the aggressors are received
with great indignation by the wretched sufferers. They positively
will not hear a single word against the cowardly ruffians.
'Sometimes,' said a nurse to me, 'when I have told a woman that
her husband is a brute, she has drawn herself up and replied:
"You mind your own business, miss. We find the rates and taxes,
and the likes of you are paid out of 'em to wait on us."'"
(Montagu Williams, _Round London_, p. 79.)
It is in large measure the existence of this feeling of
attraction for violence which accounts for the love-letters
received by men who are accused of crimes of violence.
attraction for violence which accounts for the love-letters
received by men who are accused of crimes of violence.
We have to admit that a certain pleasure in manifesting his power over a
woman by inflicting pain upon her is an outcome and survival of the
primitive process of courtship, and an almost or quite normal constituent
of the sexual impulse in man. But it must be at once added that in the
normal well-balanced and well-conditioned man this constituent of the
sexual impulse, when present, is always held in check. When the normal man
inflicts, or feels the impulse to inflict, some degree of physical pain on
the woman he loves he can scarcely be said to be moved by cruelty. He
feels, more or less obscurely, that the pain he inflicts, or desires to
inflict, is really a part of his love, and that, moreover, it is not
really resented by the woman on whom it is exercised. His feeling is by
no means always according to knowledge, but it has to be taken into
account as an essential part of his emotional state. The physical force,
the teasing and bullying, which he may be moved to exert under the stress
of sexual excitement, are, he usually more or less unconsciously persuades
himself, not really unwelcome to the object of his love.[74] Moreover, we
have to bear in mind the fact--a very significant fact from more than one
point of view--that the normal manifestations of a woman's sexual pleasure
are exceedingly like those of pain. "The outward expressions of pain," as
a lady very truly writes,--"tears, cries, etc.,--which are laid stress on
to prove the cruelty of the person who inflicts it, are not so different
from those of a woman in the ecstasy of passion, when she implores the man
to desist, though that is really the last thing she desires."[75] If a man
is convinced that he is causing real and unmitigated pain, he becomes
repentant at once. If this is not the case he must either be regarded as a
radically abnormal person or as carried away by passion to a point of temporary insanity.
woman by inflicting pain upon her is an outcome and survival of the
primitive process of courtship, and an almost or quite normal constituent
of the sexual impulse in man. But it must be at once added that in the
normal well-balanced and well-conditioned man this constituent of the
sexual impulse, when present, is always held in check. When the normal man
inflicts, or feels the impulse to inflict, some degree of physical pain on
the woman he loves he can scarcely be said to be moved by cruelty. He
feels, more or less obscurely, that the pain he inflicts, or desires to
inflict, is really a part of his love, and that, moreover, it is not
really resented by the woman on whom it is exercised. His feeling is by
no means always according to knowledge, but it has to be taken into
account as an essential part of his emotional state. The physical force,
the teasing and bullying, which he may be moved to exert under the stress
of sexual excitement, are, he usually more or less unconsciously persuades
himself, not really unwelcome to the object of his love.[74] Moreover, we
have to bear in mind the fact--a very significant fact from more than one
point of view--that the normal manifestations of a woman's sexual pleasure
are exceedingly like those of pain. "The outward expressions of pain," as
a lady very truly writes,--"tears, cries, etc.,--which are laid stress on
to prove the cruelty of the person who inflicts it, are not so different
from those of a woman in the ecstasy of passion, when she implores the man
to desist, though that is really the last thing she desires."[75] If a man
is convinced that he is causing real and unmitigated pain, he becomes
repentant at once. If this is not the case he must either be regarded as a
radically abnormal person or as carried away by passion to a point of temporary insanity.
Ellis har många exempel på hur ett visst mått av våld gentemot kvinnor förekommer naturligt i många olika kulturer världen över. Jag förstår hans resonemang som att detta är en av människans mest naturliga, primitiva drifter. Kanske kan man säga att kvinnomisshandel är evolutionsbiologiskt naturligt.
Det är i sammanhanget relevant att notera hur tex. våldtäkt och misshandel inom äktenskapet historiskt sett (ca 50 år sedan, i vissa frågor så lite som 20 år sedan) varit mycket annorlunda reglerade i lagstiftningen, i jämförelse med hur det ser ut i dagsläget.
Frågeställning: Är ett visst mått av våld gentemot kvinnor naturligt och ofrånkomligt? Bör samhället ha ett större mått av anpassning till den mänskliga naturen?
Kanske är det önskvärt att återgå till en sådan ordning, samhälleligt och lagstiftningsmässigt?
