Trump is suffering from a mental disorder that has been normalized for humans for many thousands of years. Many of its most negative symptoms are commonly waved off as ‘human nature’.
Sex on the wrong brain theory proposes that, due to brain lateralization, right handed masturbation has promoted greed, fear, ignorance, and authoritarianism over progress and democracy for millions of years and that is why 90% of humans are right handed.
Sowb theory suggests the mass level denial heading us toward planetary destruction is not due to ‘human nature’, but the lack of adequate sex education.
Note: While brain function laterality was oversimplified and exaggerated in the 70s and 80s conservatives have been minimizing it in recent years, possibly to counter efforts to introduce meditation and mindfulness training in schools.
Authoritarianism and Fascism
In a well-known 2003 study, “Political Conservatism As Motivated Social Cognition”, avoidance of uncertainty is recognized as a defining characteristic of authoritarianism. Authoritarianism is sometimes measured with the Uncertainty Avoidance Index.
When Sigmund Freud student Wilhelm Reich wrote “Mass Psychology of Fascism” in 1933 while observing increasing fascism in European youth he thought it had to do with sexual repression and the association of masturbation with religious guilt, punishment, and fear. Reich is known for some controversial ideas but here he was ‘certainly’ on the right track.
The missing link is sex on the wrong brain (or sowb, as in robe) a unified theory of human thought and behavior.
Sex on the wrong brain
- Due to brain function laterality right handed masturbation can associate reproductive urges with brain functions that are better served with patience and objectivity. Emotion and orgasm are associated strongly with the right hemisphere but the right hand is connected to and controlled by the left hemisphere.
- There are two main categories of sowb symptoms: A) When parts of the brain involved in measurement, comparison, and quantification are fueled by/associate with reproductive urges for more, bigger, faster it can increase greed, objectification and materialism, and stimulate unregulated capitalism, for instance. B) When impatient satisfaction-demanding reproductive urges increase the desire for finality and closure (orgasm equivalence) in normal thought processes they can amplify harmless sources of uncertainty (unpredictability, ambiguity, complexity, diversity, nature) into anxiety and fear, resulting in a Certainty Deficit Disorder (CDD). See table below for CDD implications.
- In times of conflict and scarcity in human evolution sowb symptoms like greed, fear, and suspicion won over cooperation, tolerance, and curiosity. Over millions of years (along with other inherited characteristics) humans evolved from about 50% right or left handed to 90% right handed (about 100,000 years ago). Right handed dominance is usually attributed to tool-making and or language but the transition began long before those developments.
- Sowb accelerated a few thousand years ago as population densities increased and humans began to delay the age of reproduction more aggressively. Increased sexual repression/frustration and sowb may have caused what brain researcher Iain McGilchrist suggests in the book “The Master and His Emissary — The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World” is an increased domination of the left brain hemisphere over the right, with negative consequences for human mental development and progress. Excerpt: "the left hemisphere needs certainty and needs to be right.” (More excerpts at sexonthewrongbrain.com).
- Humans, particularly from older longer-lasting civilizations, may have inherited brain structure and functional characteristics that make them susceptible to general or particular sowb symptoms that were preferred in their past generations. That differential with respect to acceptance vs avoidance of uncertainty contributes to intolerance, bigotry, misogyny, and racism. ‘Old World’ Columbus encountering ‘New World’ natives and Europeans colonizing Africa are examples of high sowb meeting low sowb.
- Anatomical and mechanical differences re masturbation mean men generally have more sowb than women. That high sowb/low sowb differential may cause males to see females as a source of uncertainty needing to be controlled and may be a major contributor to misogyny and patriarchy. The book suggests a vibrator held in the right hand may ‘complicate’ things….
- Authoritarian societies/value structures use sowb-induced anxiety and fear to promote certainty over truth and cultivate thought patterns that redirect ‘sex energy’ to reward denial and lying and help rationalize the acceptance of artificial certainty created with absolutism, simplification, order, control, conformity, dogma, etc.
- Frequency of masturbation is not the dominant factor in determining levels of sowb. While susceptibility to particular sowb symptoms may be inherited, the most important factor determining high individual levels of sowb is probably early age establishment of sowb-friendly brain circuitry — left brain dominance and lack of right brain use, environmental factors (pressure to conform and accept dogma, etc.), sexual repression (association of sex with factors such as fear, punishment, guilt, etc).
- Once established, sowb brain circuitry can last a lifetime and may increase with age.
- Democratic forms of organization developed primarily to regulate/limit major sowb symptoms.
Certainty Deficit Disorder
The table below from sexonthewrongbrain.com suggests some of the ways the Certainty Deficit Disorder has influenced humans.
Trump and the secret of authoritarian power
Trump has a classic and very bad case of sowb.
Trump may have a dominant ‘sowb gene’ which amplifies the problem. He may have a strong sex drive and probably grew up with lots of privacy and his own room. A junior version of the modern Trump may have never had any normal relationship with the opposite sex. As he got older opportunity for ‘real’ sex may have been limited to paying for it and forcibly taking it. The King Donald fantasy continued because his wealth insulated him from reality.
The greed is clear. He objectifies women and measures beauty on a scale of 1-10.
His CDD is off the charts.
Trump has to be certain about everything. His aversion to the complicated, unexplained, ambiguous, unpredictable, infinite, or different stimulates anxiety and fear. He has learned to simplify and reduce this frightening world to dualities and absolutes he can use to feel certain.
Sowb theory proposes that when a starved and underused right hemisphere is enlisted to help rationalize the denial and deception needed to create certainty some of the diverted ‘sex energy’ is rerouted to its original intended destination, stimulating satisfaction. As long as Trump is certain, lying and being stupid feels good.
He’s always right and never wrong. You’re on one side of the wall or the other. Winner or loser. Friend or enemy. Fantastic or horrible. Trump describes the world in black and white. Anything in between or anything he doesn’t like must be denied, ignored, or destroyed. Complicated problems are ignored or reduced to simplified monetary/numerical opportunities for his greed. A game of golf gives him 18 opportunities for certainty. When he cheats it feels good to rationalize it.
Abusing a woman or screaming at an employee is a way to trigger seldom used emotions, which also opens the gate to the pleasure centers, so to speak.
Trump reduces the uncertainties and complications that make his right handed sowb followers anxious and afraid.
Whether by design, incompetence, or sowb insanity, authoritarian leaders like Trump create chaos, disorder, and destruction because it amplifies and highlights their insane royal certitude and increases the appeal of the comfort and security their sowb followers get from it.
The theory ‘sex on the wrong brain’ has probably been around a few decades. A book of the same name by Ard Falten integrates major symptoms and implications of the disorder into a science fiction comedy adventure with a Trump-like president. In the story, sowb was caused by an ancient alien design flaw. Humans got a divided brain and two hands but only one sexual organ.
What could go wrong?