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Is Ron DeSantis Obssed With Sex And It’s LBGTQ Expressions?
by Mel Hathorn
Last edited: Saturday, March 4, 2023
Posted: Saturday, March 4, 2023



     
Florida State officials told school districts to submit lists of books and programs that deal with sex education, social-emotional learning and other topics that Gov. Ron DeSantis wants banned or restricted.

 Is Ron DeSantis Obsessed With Sex And It’s LBGTQ Expressions?

 

Florida State officials told school districts to submit lists of books and programs that deal with sex education, social-emotional learning and other topics that Gov. Ron DeSantis wants banned or restricted. 

 

The above above statement raised a question for me. Why is Ronnie so obsessed with sex and LBGTQ people? Then I remembered my peers during my elementary school years, especially in fourth or fifth grade. The one thing all my male friends expressed was their disgust and hatred of the opposite sex. We hated girls or at least we claimed to. 

 

Or course, by the time we got to eight or ninth grade, we had changed. Many of us started going to school dances and other social activities. Our years in elementary school were part of a normal stage of development. It was normal to claim hatred of those we were intrigued by. But we grew out of it. 

 

These days, it’s commonly recognized that that the more one protests or is angry at a situation, the more it seems apparent that the protester is intrigued by what they are protesting. Or as Shakespeare puts it, “Methinks the lady doth protest too much.”

 

This brings us to the question of Ronnie. Is he protesting too much? Why the intense hatred? Why the campaign to destroy LBGTQ people? Where does it come from? Is he really attracted to these people and does he on an unconscious level really want to be a part of them? Why does he have this weird fixation on sex and sexual issues? Is he at heart a closet LBGTQ?

 

More importantly, does he have a obsessive-compulsive disorder? is he obsessed with sex? Does this lead to his continuous ritualistic obsession with new laws and restrictions regarding sex and LBGTQ issues.

 

“OCD is an anxiety disorder characterized by unreasonable thoughts and fears (obsessions) that lead a person to do repetitive behaviors (compulsions)… Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) features a pattern of unwanted thoughts and fears (obsessions) that lead you to do repetitive behaviors (compulsions)…OCD often centers around certain themes — for example, an excessive fear of getting contaminated by germs. To ease your contamination fears, you may compulsively wash your hands until they're sore and chapped.” https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/obsessive-compulsive-disorder/symptoms-causes/syc-20354432

What does Freud say? “Compulsion and doubt play an important role in this clinical picture. Doubt corresponds to the patient’s inner perception of his own indecision, which, as a consequence of the inhibition of his love through his hatred…”

Freud affirms that the symptoms, the obsessive acts and the defensive measures are derived from ambivalent impulses. https://biomedres.us/pdfs/BJSTR.MS.ID.002196.pdf

Of course, the reader can draw their own conclusions. But it certainly appears that Ronnie does exhibit some OCD behaviors by his ritualistic imposition of laws restricting the rights of some classes of people.

 



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Reviewed by Patricia Hilliard
Reviewed on March 9, 2023
Your choice of Freud for an explanation was interesting, but I'm sure there are many other psychological explanations. For a political one, to me, it seems there's an attempt to turn the clock back to the 1800s, before landless white men could vote, before women and African-Americans could vote or learn to read, to a time where only rich landowners ruled our so-called "democracy." When they said "We the people," they did not intend to include the rest of us! As humanitarians, we need to keep pushing forward. Time marches on!

Reviewed by Ronald Hull
Reviewed on March 7, 2023
I live with two women with slightly different obsessive-compulsive behaviors based on fears that are really not present in their, actually idyllic, lives as single women with money from their hard-earned work.

But I didn't know that Ron DeSantis was obsessed with sex until I read your article. I had only heard that he was a political up and comer who followed Trump's style in politics and hopes to be the next Republican candidate for president. I know that Bible thumping conservatives are trying to censor anything sexual in schools when kids, more than ever, can find sexual things on the Internet and on TV easier than ever.

I don't recall ever hating girls in grade school. By sixth grade I had my first love and discovered what it was when she sat on my lap during her birthday party. My mother was holding kissing parties in our house with the best sixth grade girls. Sorry you missed out. In addition, living in a bad neighborhood, we heard all the good and bad things about sex. But I got it right most of the time in the muddle of the rumors and the detailed instructions given to me by my cousin who was two years older and lived on a farm. Most of the time knowing little about gender bending although it was around, everywhere. Remember Liberace? Gorgeous George? Bruce Jenner? That was a surprise.

Ron