বেশ কয়েক বছর আগে আমেরিকাপ্রবাসী এক রুশ লেখক রসিকতা করে মন্তব্য করেছিলেন, অধিকাংশ জঙ্গি পরকালে বাহাত্তর হুরের আশায় আত্মাহুতি দিতে রাজি হতো না, যদি ইহজীবনে নিয়মিত সফল নারীসহবাসের সুযোগ তাদের থাকতো।
কথাটি মনে গেঁথে গিয়েছিল তখনই। মনে হয়েছিল, ঠাট্টার ছলে সত্যি কথাটাই বলেছেন তিনি।
আজ Christopher Ryan-এর লেখা Sex Against War নামের প্রাসঙ্গিক একটি নিবন্ধ চোখে পড়লো। লেখাটির উপ-শিরোনাম: We'd all be safer if guys like Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab got laid occasionally। Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab-এর পরিচিতি প্যান্টি-বোমারু বা আন্ডারওয়্যার-বোমারু হিসেবে। সেই ধারণারই প্রতিধ্বনি পেলাম এই লেখাতে।
নিবন্ধ থেকে কিছু উদ্ধৃতি:
It's not a 100 per cent proof, but, in the main, intercourse is a great solvent of ideology. Whatever you think of the pure in mind, beware, reader, the pure in body.
Sounds like he's joking, but there's plenty of evidence to support his point. Any criminologist will confirm that the great bulk of crime in America is committed by unmarried young men. The best way to turn a criminal away from crime is for him to get hitched to a woman and become a father (though there's surely a strong cause/effect conflation in that one).
The underwear bomber appears to have been just another lonely, horny, frustrated young man feeling bitter and disconnected -- the perfect victim for an ideology that promises to make him a hero with all the admiring female attention he could want. If young men are designed by evolution to be obsessed with sex, like dogs in heat, you've got to wonder what kinds of destructive energies are created and compounded by ideologies telling them these feelings are shameful -- feelings common to both Islamic and Christian fundamentalism.
... Developmental neuropsychologist James Prescott found that bodily pleasure and violence seem to have an either/or relationship—the presence of one inhibits development of the other.
... After comparing these data with levels of violence within and between societies, Prescott concluded that in all but one of the cultures for which these data were available (forty-eight of forty-nine), “deprivation of body pleasure throughout life—but particularly during the formative periods of infancy, childhood, and adolescence—is very closely related to the amount of warfare and interpersonal violence.”
... A world full of angry, frustrated, isolated young men with nothing and no one to live for is a very dangerous place.
নিবন্ধ থেকে কিছু উদ্ধৃতি:
It's not a 100 per cent proof, but, in the main, intercourse is a great solvent of ideology. Whatever you think of the pure in mind, beware, reader, the pure in body.
Sounds like he's joking, but there's plenty of evidence to support his point. Any criminologist will confirm that the great bulk of crime in America is committed by unmarried young men. The best way to turn a criminal away from crime is for him to get hitched to a woman and become a father (though there's surely a strong cause/effect conflation in that one).
The underwear bomber appears to have been just another lonely, horny, frustrated young man feeling bitter and disconnected -- the perfect victim for an ideology that promises to make him a hero with all the admiring female attention he could want. If young men are designed by evolution to be obsessed with sex, like dogs in heat, you've got to wonder what kinds of destructive energies are created and compounded by ideologies telling them these feelings are shameful -- feelings common to both Islamic and Christian fundamentalism.
... Developmental neuropsychologist James Prescott found that bodily pleasure and violence seem to have an either/or relationship—the presence of one inhibits development of the other.
... After comparing these data with levels of violence within and between societies, Prescott concluded that in all but one of the cultures for which these data were available (forty-eight of forty-nine), “deprivation of body pleasure throughout life—but particularly during the formative periods of infancy, childhood, and adolescence—is very closely related to the amount of warfare and interpersonal violence.”
... A world full of angry, frustrated, isolated young men with nothing and no one to live for is a very dangerous place.
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