The terrestrial human being's normal sympathy or developed desire to caress beings outside the purely marital sexual sphere, such as beings of its own sex, and its desire to caress animals is not "one-poled" sexuality, amorous love or passion
1144. As we have already touched upon, it is just as impossible for the "new sexuality" or neighbourly love to exist without being an organic function as it is for "one-poled" sexuality. The tendency of a terrestrial human being to love and caress outside the domain of "one-poled sexuality" is a new organic function. When friends shake each other's hands warmly or embrace one another out of joy at being in one another's company, indeed, even kiss one another, it is not "one-poled sexuality" that is seeking satisfaction here. It is not an attraction towards a specific "opposite sex" that is in evidence. And is the situation not the same when people pat, caress or pet animals in the ordinary way? This entire desire for sympathy or caressing has of course nothing to do with the attraction of a "male being" towards a "female being", or the attraction of the latter being towards a "male being". On the contrary, it is expressed quite irrespective of the usual, ordinary sexuality. Is this not precisely why this display of sympathy or caressing has been given the name "comradeship" or "friendship" and, in its most perfect form, "love"? Where the sympathy occurs as an attraction towards the "opposite sex" it is, as is known, expressed as "passion" or "amorous love". But a terrestrial human being's desire to caress animals is not in its normal form "passion". It is not "amorous love" based on a secret desire to carry out a copulatory act or attain sexual satisfaction with the object of this amorous love. It is true that in certain situations it can nonetheless occur on the basis of such a desire, but then it is, as is known, an expression of nothing but a disturbance in the mental life of the being in question, a disturbance that has arisen out of a lack of normal sexual satisfaction. Then it is the thirsty desert wanderer who, for lack of anything else, throws himself upon the first puddle that he meets, however much it stinks, in order to satisfy his perilous thirst for moisture. But the analyses of life must not be based on exceptions or abnormal or morbid cases. Only the normal and universal phenomena can be expressive of true life. Fortunately it is quite exceptional that the terrestrial human being's sympathy for animals can be classed as "passion" or "one-poled sexuality".
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