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Record W4414250682 · doi:10.4102/hts.v81i1.10890

Reclaiming male erotic desire: Psychology, theology and pastoral practice

2025· article· en· W4414250682 on OpenAlexaff
Brian Ross

Bibliographic record

VenueHTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicTheological Perspectives and Practices
Canadian institutionsNOSM University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsTemptationFormative assessmentEntitlement (fair division)MasculinityChristianityPostmodernismNihilismEgalitarianism

Abstract

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Contemporary Western culture often leaves men confused or ashamed about their sexuality. The erosion of traditional male formation rites, combined with the rise of online subcultures such as the ‘manosphere’, has left many men adrift and vulnerable to nihilism or extremism. Within Christian contexts, male erotic desire is often framed primarily in terms of temptation and sin. This essay argues that such desire, when rightly ordered within a relational theological anthropology, is not an entitlement to be asserted, but a vocation to be lived: a sacred, formative call to self-giving love. Contribution: Grounded in biblical texts, sacramental theology and contemporary psychology, particularly sociocultural learning theory and masculinity studies, the article develops this vocational framing through five movements: (1) surveying historical and theological perspectives on male erotic desire; (2) examining the cultural erosion of formative structures; (3) examining the therapeutic role of religious participation wi

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.005
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.004
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.008
Threshold uncertainty score0.024

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0050.004
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0080.052
Scholarly communication0.0060.004
Open science0.0010.003
Research integrity0.0020.003
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0020.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.201
GPT teacher head0.532
Teacher spread0.330 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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