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Take the incels bowling: Thoughts on horniness and reality.

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I sympathize with their being lonely and sexually frustrated. Almost everyone is one or both of those things at some point in life. No one can fault them for their dissatisfaction at being in either condition. But when the answer they've come up with to address their dissatisfaction is not only blatantly, historically, psycho- sexually wrong, but disrespects, even in just the rhetorical realm, the rights and physical safety of others, a civil observer can only wish them to keep themselves to themselves until they grow out of it.

In a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen takes a crack at the nut (gross, sorry) of sexual fulfillment, and lays out a middle path for the frustrated incel, somewhere between Buddha and Jordan Peterson, between being a baby and being a murderer - a path that most of us are on at some point in our horny lives actually.

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Jeff Dorchen

Jeff is a visual artist, songwriter/musician, actor, essayist, fiction writer, poet, playwright and screenwriter. He's been a playwright, songwriter, and performer with Chicago's Theater Oobleck since 1988, a writer and actor with Red Baron Films since 2000, and a contributor to This Is Hell! since 1996. He currently lives in Los Angeles.

 

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