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The Sexual Economy 39
time. This type of young man may have difficulty in his relationship
with women and ultimately this leaves a vacuum in his understanding
of himself and the female pole of his own male energy.
For this same reason adolescents tend to fanaticism, political,
religious, or otherwise. Mao's Red Guard is but one youth group
that has propagated its reigning tyrant's brand of fascism. The
proliferation of various cults in the U.S. is strong evidence that the
young are not able to fill the void in their lives with the physical
pleasures that have become standard. If the fragile link with his
newly forming adult identity is frayed or broken by lack of love or
social nurturance, a youth has only the group psyche to animate his
life. The group mind provides the fullness their hollowness craves.
As Nature abhors a vacuum, their own emptiness despises itself.
These remarks apply to adults in our sex obsessed society as
well; many are desperately questioning for an identity that is their
own by natural right, if only they knew how to claim it. The proper
understanding of the function of sexual love in their personal evolution
would go far to correct these excesses. Education about
methods of chi cultivation of all types, but especially of the sexual
energy is the most direct solution. Teenagers will never give up
their sexual desire, but it is not far-fetched that many of them
would be interested in improving it if they knew how.
SEX AND THE SUPER ATHLETE
There is a widespread belief among many professional sports
coaches that an athlete who makes love the night before a big game
loses his competitive edge. This is a controversial topic and a survey
of existing opinion on the subject is inconclusive. Clive Davis,
editor of the Journal Of Sex Research, looked into the effects of
having sex before competition and concluded "You can always
find anecdotal reports to support any position you want to take, but
certainly you couldn't support either side medically."
Top-ranked prize-fighters are the most vociferous in contending
that they cannot violate natural laws without paying a stiff
price. Ken Norton publicly stated that he gave up sex for eight
weeks before his first fight with Ali and abstained for a similar
length of time in subsequent Ali fights. "A couple of times in my
first 10 or 11 fights, when I didn't abstain from sex, I think it hurt
me." Norton said that he believed that "9 out of 10" fighters give