Forget all the psychological mumbo jumbo. 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 waved off as ‘human nature’ but he has a very very bad case of it and is a walking instructional doll for the embarrassing sexual secret of authoritarian power.
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 throughout human evolution and is now preventing humans from stopping global warming.
The theory ‘sex on the wrong brain’ (or sowb, as in robe) 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?
In the story the mental disorder is explained with a statuette of a horny stallion with an oversized erection and a simplified cartoon version of human brain divided by a wall and a gate. Right handed masturbation sends herds of horny stallions into the rocky canyons of the left brain hemisphere instead of the lush green pastures of the right hemisphere. The left hemisphere likes their energy and may raise the wall and close the gate to trap them where they cannot satisfy their need for the closure and finality of orgasm waiting for them on the right side (see research, below).
As the whole brain perceives and reacts to an infinitely complicated and uncertain world the frustrated stallions become anxious and afraid and may stampede. The left hemisphere learns to reduce the uncertainty that scares the stallions by simplifying the universe to dualities and absolutes and creating certainty with premature conclusions and quick easy answers. When it opens the gates to the starved more creative right hemisphere to help it rationalize the denial and lies some of the stallions escape and can finally have their way in the pleasure centers.
And that is why the short term certainty of completely denying COVID and global warming is preferable to confronting the frightening array of uncertainties and unpredictabilities those challenges represent.
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.
Authoritarianism and masturbation
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.
Human ancestors evolved for millions of years in natural environments and surrounded by uncertainty. If nothing or very little is certain, why did humans develop such a strong demand for it?
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.
SOWB
The missing link is sex on the wrong brain, a unified theory of human thought and behavior that suggests:
- Due to brain function laterality right handed masturbation can associate reproductive urges with brain functions that are better served with patience and objectivity.
- There are two main categories of sowb symptoms: A) When parts of the brain involved in measurement, comparison, and quantification are fueled with reproductive urges for more, bigger, faster it can increase greed, objectification and materialism, and stimulate unregulated capitalism, for instance. B) The Certainty Deficit Disorder (CDD) happens when impatient satisfaction-demanding reproductive urges push for finality and closure (orgasm equivalence) which amplifies sources of uncertainty (unpredictability, ambiguity, complexity, diversity, nature) into anxiety and fear. 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 (excerpts below).
- 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.
The secret of authoritarian power
Trump has a extreme case of a normalized mental disorder.
A ‘healthy’ functioning democracy would have rejected his candidacy early in the process as it has done with many other unqualified candidates but with help from Putin and the Republican talk radio monopoly we are here.
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 was allowed to continue 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 create certainty.
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. White or black. 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. Abusing a woman or screaming at an employee is a way to trigger seldom used emotions, which 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. He has the keys to the gates that release the frightened stallions to the pleasure centers.
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.
Orgasm and emotion in the right brain hemisphere
Both emotion and orgasm are associated strongly with the right brain hemisphere — which is connected to, controls, and can be stimulated by motion of the left hand. Consider research done by Wise, Frangos, and Komisaruk, (J Sex Med. 2017 Nov; 14(11): 1380–1391), who used fMRI (functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging) to monitor brain activity in a sample of right handed women immediately before and during and after orgasm.
The brain is viewed from ‘below’, feet to head, so right hemisphere is on the left in the images. The greatest change in activity associated with orgasm was on the right side.
Brain regions showed significantly higher activity during orgasm than immediately before orgasm. These included, all on the right side, the operculum (secondary somatosensory cortex regions 1e4) and the angular gyrus and the precuneus, BA 44 and 45, pre and post central gyri, and other regions of the frontal, temporal, parietal, and occipital cortices. (J Sex Med. 2017 Nov; 14(11): 1380–1391)
And on emotion, from “Continuities in Emotion Lateralization in Human and Non-Human Primates - Lindell 2013”:
The right hemisphere of the brain is usually associated with emotion in humans as well as primates, "suggesting an evolutionary continuity going back at least 30 to 40 million years" .
Left vs right hemisphere and certainty
From the sexonthewrongbrain.com:
In the book "The Master and His Emissary, The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World", (2009) Iain McGilchrist argues that the left hemisphere is supposed to be the 'servant' to the right hemisphere, a better ‘master’, but the left hemisphere has become increasingly dominant in recent human history and humanity is suffering for it.
Is McGilchrist describing the effects of sex on the wrong brain and its acceleration during the last few thousand years?
Excerpts:
"the left hemisphere needs certainty and needs to be right. The right hemisphere makes it possible to hold several ambiguous possibilities in suspension together without premature closure on one outcome." p82
Re problem solving: "the right hemisphere presents an array of possible solutions, which remain alive while alternatives are explored. The left hemisphere, by contrast, takes the single solution that seems best to fit what it already knows and latches onto it. V.S. Ramachandran's studies of anosognosia reveal a tendency for the left hemisphere to deny discrepancies that do not fit its already generated schema of things." p41
"The left hemisphere is the equivalent of the sort of person who, when asked for directions, prefers to make something up rather than admit to not knowing." p81
"not only does (what we now know to be) the left hemisphere tend to insist on its theory at the expense of getting things wrong, but it will later cheerfully insist that it got it right." p82
Research
Brain scan research is relatively new. Much of the earlier research involved subjects who had damage of one hemisphere or the other. There is a lot of research out there that might reinforce or disprove sex on the wrong brain theory but note that most or all of the neuroscience using brain scans of various sensing technologies limit their research to right handed subjects because they know left handers can skew results.
This Pope seems sincerely interested in saving the planet. Maybe it would help if he read “Sex On the Wrong Brain” and started the appropriate sex education (a pope is mentioned in it). Are there ancient texts in the old libraries that would mention sex on the wrong brain and it’s value for building armies and keeping the population subservient?
From sexonthewrongbrain.com:
The Koran dictates that men can only have sex with their wives and "that which the right hand possesses", which scholars interpret to mean slaves and captives. But where did that leave males who could not afford a wife and did not have slaves and captives? How can that be interpreted today and how does it relate to radical islamic groups?
Maybe someone here can review it.