This was on a lecture slide about the anus ><

"They say man has succeeded where animals fail because of the clever use of his hands, yet when compared to the hands, the sphincter ani is far more superior. If you place into your cupped hands a mixture of fluid, solid and gas and then through an opening at the bottom try to let only the gas escape, you will fail. Yet the sphincter ani can do it. The sphincter apparently can differentiate between solid, fluid and gas. It can tell whether its owner is alone or with someone, whether standing up or down, whether its owner has his/her pants on or off. No other muscle of the body is such a protector of the dignity of humans, yet so ready to come to their relief. A muscle like this is worth protecting. It is like the goalie in hockey...always alert"

Haha. I love your lecturer.

Here's something I learnt about fantasies from Freud: fantasies are the satisfaction of wishes resulting from deprivation. Aka: deprivation of something = you want it = you fantasise about it

And something else from psychoanalytic theorists, which I found hilarious: "Masturbation has the use of assuring the individual that his genitals still work", and that's a direct quote. Haha

Oh yeah that is totally why people masturbate - to check if their genitals still work

Hence the absurbity of psychoanalysis lol. Freud had major issues I think. Penis envy, anal fixation, oedopis complexes, projection, Fruedian slips. S'all crazy, useless stuff, but I love talking about it cuz it's just soo messed up. oedopis complex in particular = major LOLs.