{"id":2650,"date":"2025-12-16T11:08:29","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T10:08:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/figuremergenti.it\/senza-categoria\/chapter-14-sexual-aggression\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T11:14:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T10:14:17","slug":"chapter-14-sexual-aggression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/figuremergenti.it\/en\/pubblications\/chapter-14-sexual-aggression\/","title":{"rendered":"Chapter 14: Sexual Aggression"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]This chapter defines sexual aggression as a distinct, evolved form of aggression that emerges when sexuality (fusion, pleasure, care) and aggression (initiative, boundary-setting, force) shift from polar opposites to a figure\/ground relationship. Unlike appropriation\u2014which takes from the other regardless of consent, depletes the field, and relies on destructive force\u2014sexual aggression operates by exchange: I produce surplus, attend to what the other needs, and co-create novelty with less risk and greater sustainability. Rooted in the lived body and supported by genital resonance (without requiring genital acts), sexual aggression keeps excitement high while balancing autonomy with closeness; the ever-present risk of losing the other is accepted as part of adult, non-fusional intimacy. It requires a peer relationship\u2014not symmetry of contributions but mutual dignity, where each has something worthy to offer\u2014and depends on recognition and responsibility to identify with one\u2019s force ethically. An illustrative vignette shows how dialogue that begins as deconstruction (dental aggression) can become erotic exchange when both parties offer and receive stimulation that generates something new. In this mode, violence, appropriation, and total fusion are excluded: they would negate exchange, care, individuation, and confrontation among peers. 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