Kelly Jones wrote:The fact men are usually quick to recognise the base and ignoble aspects of sexual desire, when corrected, speaks otherwise.
A minor proportion of them maybe. There is virtually no aspect of human sexuality as it stands now that isn't unconscious(and therefore base in a sage's book), but the average man would probably not recognise human sexuality itself as a problem.
When you challenge them for passing-the-buck, and call them lazy and cowardly, many men will do as Paul Elam's menagerie have done: they say they're afraid of women, since women are such nasty creatures, and poor little boys all of them, they're just innocent victims (of their own choice to enslave themselves to women....).
All that justification and rationalisation speaks of guilt.
It may speak of guilt, but it may just be a result of them not being able to see an alternative. Blaming them can only serve a purpose if it makes them more aware of the situation, but I'm not sure blaming, say, a 19 year old boy for the rampant sexuality of western society is going to do that.
Also, guilt and blame are different things. Guilt may flourish into wisdom with, or perhaps even as a necessary consequence of the absence of blame.