... ―Freud believed that the drive for pleasure, mainly sexual pleasure, was primary. He was not aware of the ‗pleasure center‘ in the brain--the medial... ...clarity, I see Freud's concept of libido to be much more important than I did when I was in college. The work of psychologist John Olds on the medial... ...nctions, such as body temperature, sleep, hunger, and the development of secondary sex characteristics. But the front part of that organ, the medial... ...r power. Bin Laidin and some Middle Age popes used religion as the reasons for the Inquisition, witch hunting, the Thirty Years War, the 9/11 massac... ...ction of an orgasm. Playing the power games of sex can disguise itself as love, as the lovers practice those behaviors that Shakespeare saw as massiv... ...ily and neighbors. But that is not enough today. The Internet, cell phones, television, CNN, a globalized economy, the existence of weapons of mass d...