September 13, 2001 at 12:00 am #30183
Victoria
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I’m not certain, but I have heard something that could be of help: Humans go through several early sexual stages, starting almost immediately at birth. The first is oral, then anal, phallic, latent and genital. The anal stage, which I believe begins around 24 months, is associated with the pleasure of learning to control our bowel movements; because pain sometimes accompanies this, psychologists believe the association of pain and pleasure remains in later adult life. Knives are one of many ways of going at it.