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SEX
&
WAR
by
Tuli Kupferberg
BIRTH PRESS
381 East 10 Street
NY 9 NY
This is PEDANTIC PAMPHLET Number 2
Copyright July 1962



SEI AND WAR

The relationmship between sex and war has
been recognized for some time now and is
a simple corollary of the frustrationaggression theory.
It has never to my knowledge been seriously adt broadly discussed. Its implications of course are far reaching.
II
Why do men want or accept war?
1) Economic theories
Vulgar Marxists (and gratuitously it must
be admitted that most Marxists are vulgar
ones) opt for the economic interpretation
of the causes of war: Rational men, (or a
man), or groups of men, or nations decide
consciously (or even unconsciously if you
want to be sophisticated), (or refuse to
accept a decision) that a particular economic course is desirable and are willing
to kill and let others be killed and in
some last analyses permit themselves to
be killed for certain real or allegedly
real economic advantages or for the preservation of these advantages.
Whatever real basis this motive may have
had inithe past and whatever force (in
certain areas say like Red China) it may
have i -the present, it is in my opinioa
not at the center of the problem today.
2) Moral theories
A certain group of moral theories of war
involving original sin, Catholic doctrine,
devil theories, innate evilness of human
nature, basic stupidity and irrationality
of man, retribution, "death wish" (except
as later discussed) I will dismiss here
out of hand. Their arguments appear to
me so weak that I do not wish to devote
further time to refuting them.
3) Power theory
There is however a certain analog of the
moral theory or better an unholy alliance
of the economic and moral theories enjoying a certain currency which I shall
terms the Power theory:s en fight because
they want power over other men. The
superficiality of this theory is apparent
since one is immediately forced to asks
power for what reason?



III
In a society of material scarcity(which
is almost until very recently the entire
history of the human race) people have
attacked one another to obtain goods and
resources and control over the distribution of these resources. This is the
history of class society and it is the
history of the State9
At least in the. West we have moved out of
such material scarcity and the rest of
the world can easily (if conditions are
right) move out at a fantastically rapid
rate.
Altho the persistence of what is inappropriate (economic) behavior may be one of
the driving forces toward war at this
time (if it ever wae "rational" at all
may indeed be argued since men can undoubtedly advance themselves by cooperation as easily, indeed more easily, than
by barbaric competition) both in the
"holding" capitalist West and in the
"grasping" Communist East, this illogical persistence must now be analyzed in
terms of personality.
IV
Frigid America and Puritan Russia'
Are these terms too harsh? Let us use them
then as useful semi-artificial archetypes.
Khrushchev is incensed by the can-can and
a story of Kennedy's first marriage is
suppressed (or Rockefeller's divorce
costs him 100,000's of votes).
The murder of Caryl Chessman for "unspeakable" sexual practices (fellatio
with an unwilling girl?) and the murder
of the "Lipstick King" for selling bootleg kiss-focus.
Is Khrushchev an: Eisenhower with hyperactive adrenals? Their wives seem interchangeable. "A Summer To Remember", the
Soviet film which succeeded so well here,
seemed to me (altho I am sure most Americans loved it) a reactionary piece of
sentimental "familial" claptrap with
about 50 obvious glaring errors of child
psychology. Soviet autos exhibited at
the Coliseum seemed horrible immitations
of the worst U.S. models.
Obviously these cultures are drawing so
close together as to soon appear almost

inseparably alike.
Well if they are so alike why are they in
conflict? That being the same is not incompatable with conflict may of course be
seen through many examples: for instance:
the British-German conflict in WW1.



Sexual Revolution
The vast inexhaustible well:of setual
misery has been well documented and  -
lyrically described by men as far apart
as Sigmund Freud, Havelock Ellis, D.H.
Lawrence, Henry Miller, and Wilhelm
ReieBh
The reception of the work of Wilhelm
Reich is "amusing and instructive",
He was arrested or exiled in half-a
dozen Western nations (andL thrown out
of the International: Paychoanalytic
Association) and expelled from the
Communist Party of Germany only to die
in a U.S. prison for what? For being
in favor of fucking' (sex).
In a travesty almost unparalleled even
in America his once banned works (now
that he is dead) have now been permitted to be printed and sold without
any rescinding whatsoever of the original FDA ban.
"Is the law an ass?"
Well what are the implications for the
problem of war? Simply this:
Men (and women) sexually miserable
will tolerate, nay, even want the
murder of others and (even) themselves
The reason why so many men were glad
to leave their jobs and families in
WW2 was that they were tremendously
unhappy there. And at the core of
most (not all) of this unhappiness was
a sexual dullness and/or misery.
Change, any change, was a change for
the better.
The scapegoat mechanism has been well
documented. What remains is to see
the importance of the sexual frustration in areas where it is not recognized or admitted: the "Negro" problem,
War.
The reason many middle aged or old
politicians on all sides are ready to
kill you and themselves is that
(simply put) they don't enjoy getting
laid (intercourse) anymore.
Is this hypothesisa distasteful to you?
Disprove it.

cont.



VI
AMy hope?
It is obvious to anyone that re are close
to destruactio: the plane with the madbomber for a passenger carries us all
to destruction, even the (rare) seeuilly
happy one.
Our hope lies mainly in the dissatisfied
disaffiliated youth, evn (and Especially?) in spite of all their distortions
in the so-cafled "delinquents".  (Over
50% of these must be so-called setial
delinquents, i.e. young people v6o have
sex without their parents' approval.
"J.D.'s" here, stilyagi in the USSR,
YCND's and Cgpmittees of 100 in England
(not Teds altho relations and separations
must be made), Note how the word Beatnik
becomes a measingless "young hate" wovod.
We are,seeing a world wide breakdown in
old impossible sexual morality andL b4ye
yet to see clearly the better forms of
sex and child rearing which will emerge.
This will be a time of great mistakea and
great joy.
We are close to death and liberation.

Let us choose joys



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