Why ‘YOU’ Have Sexual Inhibitions
3 min readMay 16, 2024
- Religious Control: This theory suggests that major religious institutions promote sexual repression to maintain moral authority and control over followers. By dictating what is sexually permissible, these institutions can exert a broader influence over personal and societal ethics.
- Population Control: Some theories propose that governments promote sexual inhibition as a method of population control. By encouraging fear around sex, especially unprotected sex, the theory suggests that authorities can manage birth rates without overtly restrictive policies.
- Pharmaceutical Profits: Another theory posits that pharmaceutical companies have an interest in promoting sexual anxiety or dysfunction because it boosts the sale of medications like antidepressants and erectile dysfunction drugs. By pathologizing normal sexual concerns, these companies can expand their markets.
- Divide and Rule: This theory holds that if people are preoccupied with personal insecurities, including sexual fears, they are less likely to unite against societal injustices. Thus, elite groups encourage sexual shame as a means to keep the populace distracted and divided.
- Preservation of Patriarchy: According to some theorists, promoting fear of sex is a way to preserve patriarchal structures. By controlling women’s sexuality, these structures ensure that traditional gender roles are maintained, keeping women submissive and dependent.
- Economic Manipulation: There’s a theory that suggests a sexually repressed population is more driven to seek satisfaction through consumerism. By sublimating sexual desires into material desires, people become more predictable and easier to market to.
- Media and Cultural Engineering: Some conspiracists believe that the media is complicit in promoting unrealistic standards of sexual conduct and beauty, which lead to sexual insecurity and inhibition. This manipulation is said to be directed by secretive groups aiming to control public morality and behavior.
- Moral Panic Creation: This theory suggests that moral panics around sex, such as the fear of promiscuity leading to societal decay, are intentionally stirred up by those in power to keep the population adhering to conservative values that are easier to control.
- Social Engineering by Elites: According to this theory, social elites, including those in secret societies, deliberately promote sexual repression as a way to differentiate themselves from the masses and maintain a form of moral superiority that justifies their position in the social hierarchy.
- Surveillance and Control: Some theorists believe that promoting fear around sexuality is a tactic to justify increased surveillance and control over personal lives. By encouraging the populace to report ‘deviant’ sexual behavior, a culture of fear and distrust is maintained, allowing for easier societal control.
- Disempowerment Through Guilt: This theory posits that by instilling guilt about sexual desires, particularly in young people, those in power can create a psychologically weakened populace that is easier to manipulate and less likely to challenge authority.
- Commercialization of Sexuality: According to this theory, there is a paradoxical promotion of sexual content in media to commercialize sex while simultaneously instilling fear about actual sexual freedom and expression. This creates a cycle of desire and repression that benefits industries like advertising, which exploit sexual imagery.
- Normalization of Extremes: Some theorists argue that by normalizing extreme sexual behaviors in certain media, a climate of fear and confusion is created about everyday sexual activities, leading to more general sexual repression among the populace.
- Distracting from Real Issues: Finally, there’s a theory that suggests sexual repression is promoted to distract the public from more pressing political and economic issues. By keeping the public focused on personal and moral dilemmas related to sex, larger systemic issues can be ignored or downplayed.
