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The term ‘perversion’ has always attracted considerable controversy. Perhaps a somewhat unfortunate choice, perversion easily implies a norm, for example a deviation from an accepted sexual norm,[i] and a judgement about how wrong or right that deviation is, but the term has remained relevant and is used to assist particularly with people whose sexual life, experiences and fantasies makes them suffer
What’s behind Xi Jinping’s seemingly permanent Buddha smile? A diplomat’s answer might run along the lines of the secret strategic calculations that tell Xi the geopolitical balance of power is tilting his way. A sense of impending victory, hubris even. A psychologist’s answer might be different: it points not to victory, or to hubris, but to a force fundamental to China’s collective political psychology: shame.
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