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Scientology's views on sex

The Second Dynamic

In Hubbard's original Dynamics, "Sex" was the Second Dynamic, representing both the sexual act and the family unit. After Hubbard's death, however, the Church altered the Dynamics and replaced "Sex" with "Creativity", minimizing the importance of sex: "It also incidentally includes sex as a mechanism to compel future survival". ^[1] Doctrine Practices Concepts People Public groups Organization Controversy This article examines the beliefs and practices of Scientology as taught by the Church of Scientology. ...

"Admiration particles"

In The Creation of Human Ability, Hubbard hailed "compelled admiration" as an important step of progress in "Knowingness", as measured on his "Know to Sex" scale. Hubbard stated:

"It can be observed that the eating of living flesh or live cells delivers a kind of admiration to the taste, and it can be observed that under torture, duress of all kinds, the tortured one will suddenly, if degradedly, admire his torturer."

Hubbard then went on to say that sex was an even better "communication system" for the same purposes of forced "admiration", and defined the sex act, consensual or otherwise, as "an interchange of condensed admiration particles". ^{[2] [3]}

Sex invented by psychiatrists

In 1982 Hubbard authored a controversial decree in which the biological act of sex and the body's ability to feel pain were said to be "the invented tools of degradation" created by psychiatrists millions of years ago, and "the stocks-in-trade of psychs are pain and sex." This is a key teaching behind Scientology's vehement opposition to all forms of psychiatry - the bulletin says that psychiatrists "have been on the track a long time and are the sole cause of decline in this universe." According to this teaching, "When sex enters the scene, a being fixates and loses power", and "Lovers are very seldom happy." ^[4]

Homosexuality

Main article: Homosexuality and Scientology

In 1950 Hubbard published Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health, introducing his "science of the mind," Dianetics. He classified homosexuality as an illness or sexual perversion. ^[5] Doctrine Practices Concepts People Public groups Organization Controversy Scientology views of homosexuality are based on the writings of L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of the Church of Scientology. ... 1950 (MCML) was a common year starting on Sunday. ... Scientologists promoting Dianetics at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books Dianetics is a set of ideas and practices regarding the relationship between mind and body that were developed by science fiction author L. Ron Hubbard. ...

Hubbard's "tone scale", a means of classifying individuals and human behaviour on a chart running from +40 (the most beneficial) to -40 (the least beneficial). Sexual perversion, a category in which he included homosexuality, was termed "covert hostility" and given a score of 1.1, "the level of the pervert, the hypocrite, the turncoat, ... the subversive." Such people were "skulking coward[s] who yet contains enough perfidious energy to strike back, but not enough courage ever to give warning."^{[6] [7]} In Scientology, the tone scale or emotional tone scale is a characterization of human behavior and bodily appearance. ...

Sex during pregnancy

Hubbard warned against sexual activity (including masturbation) during pregnancy. He believed it had an adverse and dangerous effect on the unborn child because it can hear, understand and experience everything going on, as well as recording it all as engrams which can haunt the person for the rest of their life. This view is at odds with mainstream science, as Paulette Cooper commented in her book The Scandal of Scientology:

"Hubbard's theory never makes it really clear, at least in a manner that would be accepted by most medical doctors, exactly how engrams can be planted before a foetus had developed a nervous system or the sense organs with which to register an impression, or even how a person could retain or 'remember' verbal statements before he had command of a language." ^[8]

These same beliefs form the basis for Hubbard's "Silent birth" doctrine, which dictates that no words are spoken during the childbirth process in order to avoid the baby hearing them and recording them as engrams. ^[9] Silent birth, sometimes known as quiet birth, is a birthing procedure advised by L. Ron Hubbard and advocated by Scientologists in which everyone attending the birth should refrain from spoken words as much as possible and where ... chatty doctors and nurses, shouts to PUSH, PUSH and loud or laughing remarks...

Scientology's views on the body

Scientology takes a very dim view of the usefulness of our physical bodies, and in fact, the entire physical universe as well. Hubbard called the physical world MEST, which is something we, as ethereal Thetans temporarily operating our "meat bodies", are meant to transcend and conquer. Thetans are of the "Theta Universe", and the entire purpose of the Theta Universe is, in Hubbard's words, "the conquest, change, and ordering" of this universe. ^[10] In the Scientology religion, MEST is an acronym for Matter, Energy, Space and Time, considered by Scientologists to be the four component parts of the physical universe. ... In Scientology, the concept of thetan is similar to the concept of spirit or soul found in other belief systems. ...

Scientologists often refer to their bodies as "this piece of meat," or "this meat of ours" ^[11] and new recruits to the church are classified as "raw meat". ^[12] Scientology is geared towards attaining "cause over MEST", attaining awareness that our bodies are undesirable physical objects that are only holding us back, and attaining the ability to abandon one's body via "exteriorization" and ultimately by becoming an Operating Thetan Clear. ^[13] The Scientology Tone scale, in fact, lists needing a body (and all body-related matters) among the lowest of all possible states. In Scientology, the state of Operating Thetan is a spiritual state above Clear. ... In Scientology, the tone scale or emotional tone scale is a characterization of human behavior and bodily appearance. ...

Scientologist Lisa McPherson, after a minor car accident in 1995, stripped naked and walked down Belleview Boulevard in Clearwater, Florida until apprehended by paramedics. She told them in a monotone voice that she was an Operating Thetan and didn't need a body to live. ^[14] Doctrine Practices Concepts People Public groups Organization Controversy Lisa McPherson (born Lisa Skonetski, February 10, 1959–December 5, 1995) was a Scientologist who died of a pulmonary embolism while under the care of the Flag Service Organization (FSO), a branch of the Church of Scientology. ... Clearwater is a city located in central Pinellas County, Florida, USA, nearly due west of Tampa. ...

Controversy

Bullbaiting

Bullbaiting is a Scientology training routine in which you must remain perfectly still and stoic while the Scientology auditor yells at you and tries to come up with the most horrible insults possible in order to make you react. There have been complaints about some auditors going too far in trying to get a reaction out of the PC, by using sexually harassing language ^[15] and even touching them in a sexual manner. ^[16] This article is in need of attention. ...

A means of control

Hubbard's son L. Ron Hubbard, Jr. stated in an interview that his father would use Auditing (Scientology) as an excuse to obtain data about a person's entire sex life. "There was certainly an incredible preoccupation. In Dianetics and Scientology, sex was a great means of control. You have complete control of someone if you have every detail of his sex life and fantasy life on record". ^[17] This article is in need of attention. ...

See also

• Homosexuality and Scientology
• Gabriel Williams
• James Stacy Barbour

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References

Note: HCOB refers to "Hubbard Communications Office Bulletins", HCOPL refers to "Hubbard Communications Office Policy Letters", and SHSBC refers to "Saint Hill Special Briefing Courses". All have been made publicly available by the Church of Scientology in the past, both as individual documents and in bound volumes.

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External links

• http://www.scientology-lies.com/faq/teachings/sex.html
• http://www.holysmoke.org/cos/sea-org-sex-abuse.htm