1. Management of the sex drive isn’t just the business of medical experts like management of electricity is the business of the electrical company. Every healthy young man feels the need for sexual activity. But the need for sex is easier to suppress, block or sublimate than is the need to urinate, defecate, sleep, eat, drink, and breathe.

2. When a young man doesn’t have regular sex, his unconscious produces dreams which accompany nocturnal emissions. The stronger his sex drive, or libido, the more this is true. And a young man with a strong sex drive but who isn’t popular with the ladies will be apt to have a more active unconscious, if the unconscious is stimulated during each wet dream.

3. We can see how the sexually active man who attracts many women won’t need to dream of women, if he has plenty of sexual activity in real life. But a man who isn’t attractive won’t have a love life. But he still might have a strong libido. So this poses a problem. For him to live at peace with himself and with his fate, he must live a lot in his dreams, and in his imagination.

4. Life without breath, food, water, waste elimination and sleep cannot long endure. And sex is a vital need also. And since some men don’t charm the ladies, some men have been forced into unusual dream activity and unusual creative activity.

5. To satisfy a woman takes a lot of a man's attention. But some women demand less attention than others. And some women even become servants of their husband’s genius, as well as is the man himself. For instance, J.S. Bach the great composer married Anna Magdalena, who was an sonorous instrument for his genius to play upon. She sang many of his songs. And who cared for all of Bach’s children while he was busily composing on the organ? These persons were also servants of Bach’s genius.

6. We can view human history as we see the vast majority of healthy and sociable young men finding good mates and being nourished in all ways by them. But in history we also see the active unconscious mind producing dream images and we sometimes witness these dream symbols being hailed as “messages from God” or from the realm of “spirits” by persons who have strong libidos but whose love life might not ever have been spectacular.

7. And we see individuals with powerful libidos but with personality problems of one sort or another, projecting ideas of a strong appeal to persons whose unconscious accepts these ideas without critical thinking. Because critical thinking hasn’t yet become a very common human attribute. Many persons who are enthusiastic about a particular religion haven’t examined critically the many other religions.

8. History shows us the rise of new religions, and bloody wars fought by tribes and nations of true believers. The study of the unconscious mind, however, and the study of unappealing men, has yet to become a popular science. Carl Jung studied the unconscious, but Jung was a big, strong, handsome, and charming man, so we can see how his unconscious mind became less volcanic in maturity as he earned his medical degree and he won followers, many of whom were neurotic women.

9. The next step in this process appears to be more conscious awareness of libido, and dream imagery, and more conscious awareness of unusual young men who just don’t get much experience in sex.

10. In other words, some young men just don’t get any sexual experience, except as they dream or relieve themselves in other ways which don’t involve females. We would expect and predict, these men will develop strong dream patterns and be creative as their libido asserts itself. However, if the unusual young man finds a non-female sex partner, we’d expect the creativity to abate somewhat as his actual reality comes to satisfy more than his imagination.

11. Usually sex is felt in regards to another human, not in regards to nonhuman physical objects, is attained through imagination. But to be creative as an inventor one must be very attentive to physical objects, and a woman wants a man to be attentive to her. So if a man is going to charm many women, and satisfy them, we won’t expect this man to be another Edison.

12. Ideas, too, require a lot of attention. A man in bed, mulling over ideas, won’t be so excited by his wife. And a younger man, who is unusually thoughtful, might seem to put up a wall between himself and other people. The creative mind grows more powerful only when it is exercised more and more. This can bewilder some people, and even irritate them.

13. When a young man is odd, he isn’t necessarily good in the usual sense of the word good. The odd boy is likely to grow up to become an unusual man. But sex is an essential need in odd boys as in boys whom the young ladies love. So there’s this social problem of how to deal with really unusual young men. This problem keeps getting worse because in the old times odd men just got killed off by disease, or by malice, or by accident. Today there’s more tolerance and better medicine. So millions more men today are odd.

14. When a young man is odd, this can be seen as a social blessing. The atypical child shows special ability in some way. Certainly this is true for odd boys like Jiddu Krishnamurti, who wasn’t the highest of intellects but was exceptionally kind and generous. Today’s special need is to provide more special care for the unusual boys and men, so that their special talents and joys can be of benefit to more persons.

15. Many old myths have downgraded the boys and girls and the men and women whose faces were unattractive or whose whole bodies weren’t proportioned in accord with the artistic ideal. In many myths the villain is depicted as unattractive. This is a dangerous old rut to be stuck in. We can see logically why so many relatively unattractive or unmannerly young men were sustained by their inspirations, or their inventiveness, so, like Vincent Van Gogh, they contributed to society even though they repelled the ladies and other persons raised to appreciate and express refined artistic sensibility.

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