Reviews for Deterministic chaos

The average rating for Deterministic chaos based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2011-06-24 00:00:00 Robert Anthony This was fairly forward thinking for its day for some things like masturbation: "The only thing harmful about masturbation is the guilt drummed into children." It also appears to support greater access to abortions for pregnant women and discusses many varieties of birth control. But it's take on homosexuality is appalling. Here are a few of the statements in the book: "One of the main features of homosexuality is promiscuity...The homosexual must constantly search for the one man, the one penis, the one experience, that will satisfy him. Tragically there is no possibility of satisfaction because the formula is wrong." In regards to those gay men who live together happily for years: "The bitterest argument between husband and wife is a passionate love sonnet by comparison with a dialogue between a butch and his queen. Live together? Yes. Happily? Hardly." On gender reassignment surgery: "...Two homosexuals who had undergone these operations five years previously died of cancer. Ironically they succumbed to cancer of the breast--their new femae breasts. Ironicallyl these men who wanted to be women died of a woman's disease. that's as close as they came." Seriously? LOTS of men get breast cancer. LOTS. Here are some estimates from the American Cancer Society for breast cancer in men in the US for 2014: About 2,360 new cases of invasive breast cancer in men will be diagnosed About 430 men will die from breast cancer For men, the lifetime risk of dying from breast cancer is about 1 in 3,333 slightly more likely than dying from natural forces (heat, cold, storms, quakes, etc.) is 1 in 3,357. Back to the book: "All [homosexuals] have this in common: the primary interest is the penis, not the person." "Those who combine homosexuality with sadistic and masochistic aberrations are among the cruelest people who walk the earth...they filled the ranks of Hitler's Gestapo and SS." However, although the author thinks heterosexual S&M fetishists are childish, they are just "harmless." After describing very promiscuous and impersonal behavior (including a glory hole), the question is asked whether all homosexual contacts are as impersonal as that. The answer is, "No. Most are much more impersonal." (And why is impersonal sex and promiscuous behavior automatically wrong? It's not like heterosexuals don't do those things.) Transvestites are listed under perverts. For someone so forward thinking in some areas, to be incredibly backward about gay issues, is disturbing. It was only a few years after the book was written that psychiatrists removed homosexuality as a disease in and of itself from the DSM. Considering how many years it takes to publish a new edition of that book, there had to have been a lot of talk at that time about homosexuality being normal.

Review # 2 was written on 2015-08-27 00:00:00 william jacob Until GR friend Henry Le Nav recently rated and commented on David Reuben's EVERYTHING YOU ALWAYS WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT SEX: BUT WERE AFRAID TO ASK, this work hung out in the "cold storage" unit of my memories. The only way in which my familiarity with it would show up was in some variation of Sol Weinstein's mockery of Reuben's book: EVERYTHING YOU NEVER WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT SEX*: *BUT I'LL TELL YOU ANYWAY. No surprise here -- I have a tendency to share boring information (i.e., not about sex) that other people don't want to hear. My seeing the work mentioned in a GR daily update, though, dragged it out of "cold storage." And while I hold the popular view that its audience grew up, grew old, lost control over bodily functions, remembers only stuff that happened a long time ago, and thinks a six-hour erection is Cialis's best side-effect, I also want to say that Reuben's book had its day, actually many days, in the sun. Yes, if you didn't own a copy when I was an undergraduate, then you became the friend of someone who did, or you were part of a group lying in the sun and listening to the book's owner read the "good parts" aloud. Very valuable -- this Reuben book -- and very enlightening if you were born in the 1950's. Bibles were holy one day a week; that book with the sun-colored cover was holy on the other six. It gets a five-star rating from the eighteen-year-old in me. ADDENDUM I seldom read reviews of books that I've read. And I don't ordinarily write a review of a work that I haven't recently read. But having posted a "review" of a book that I read too long ago to remember well, I decided to look at other GR members' responses to EVERYTHING. . . . I discovered that some readers found parts of the work -- particularly Reuben's discussion of homosexuality -- misleading and offensive. The refuted / discredited material is not entirely useless; it does, after all, illuminate prevailing attitudes and beliefs of a bygone era. Nevertheless, I understand the complaints; and I hope that anyone who notices that I gave Reuben's book five stars will not mistakenly conclude that the rating reveals something other than the importance of the work to many baby boomers.