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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]The chapter argues that, despite liberalized media and policy shifts, everyday sexuality remains constrained by patriarchal norms and cultural introjects that hollow out vitality, care, and mutuality. It traces the gap between official equality and lived ambivalence\u2014where consent, gender diversity, and LGBTQ+ rights are proclaimed yet undermined by discrimination, violence, and victim-blaming. Movements like #MeToo expose how harassment is rooted in power relations rather than desire, especially exploiting youth and vulnerability, and they help relocate shame and responsibility from victims to perpetrators. The authors propose \u201cmetaphorizing\u201d the genitals\u2014understanding them not merely as copulatory organs or performance objects but as an organismic center orienting us toward union, pleasure, creativity, and reciprocal care. This reframe implies educational practices that normalize naming and sensing one\u2019s body without collapsing sexuality into genital discharge. Clinically, Gestalt therapists are urged to resist offering an \u201cideal\u201d refuge; instead, they should acknowledge complicity in the wider field, invite real confrontation, and co-create experiments that foster new, more responsible adaptations. The revolution, the chapter contends, advances when sexuality is reclaimed as a relational, ethical force that unhinges oppressive introjects and supports both personal flourishing and cultural change.[\/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”Download Chapter 4″ css=”.vc_custom_1763545359014{margin-top: 25px !important;}” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Ffiguremergenti.it%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2025%2F11%2FChapter-4.pdf|target:_blank”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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