Based on Sigmund Freud's "On the Universal Tendency to Debasement in the Sphere of Love," Freud defines two important conceptual theories: The affectionate current and the sensual currents. The affectionate current is based on the affection someone receives as a child from their primary caregiver who was most likely the man's mother or sister. Freud says that during childhood we experience sexual instinct but they are more innocent then the sexual instincts of an adult …showed first 75 words of 1066 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1066 total…taken up (society's rules, etc.) --"good" and "bad" elements alike. Freud emphasized the looseness of the ties of the sexual instinct to the (expected) sexual object. Freud's view is ultimately quite simple and certainly conforms to the ruling codes of his time and place sexuality outside of reproduction is essentially perverse. If obtaining sexual pleasure becomes 'easy', its value is diminished, and even life itself seems less worth living.<Tab/>