The article sets out to show how an holistic approach in matters of sexuality is always more helpful than one-sided approaches. On the issue of internet pornography, the authors suggest that the recent anti-masturbation online movement ‘no fapping’ is based on wrong conclusions from insufficient evidence. We suggest that a holistic approach is called for, with emphasis on the embodied human. Abstinence or what is understood by ‘Platonic love’ is not a solution, according to Plato himself. From a phenomenological perspective, we suggest owning up to our strange bodies and habitualising sexual activity.
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Staehler, T., & Kozin, A. (2017). Between Platonic Love and Internet Pornography. Sexuality and Culture, 21(4), 1120–1139. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12119-017-9440-z
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