“Sex before eight, or else it’s too late.”

The infamous slogan of the title is said to be the motto of the René Guyon Society. Here, I outline an argument (independent of Guyon’s doctrines) that demonstrates its – naturally theoretical – appropriateness in modern society.

The argument needs a background context. It is essentially this: the existing social order is based upon exploitation in every form and at every level. In order to perpetuate the exploitation, the order must control all resources, including humans. It must ensure that every human value, thought, belief, gesture and activity is consonant with the goals of the order. It must ingrain humans with one, key, driving force: every worthwhile activity must produce some ‘good’. Naturally it is the role of the State to direct which human activities are the ‘good’ investments. Sexual activity – desire – has no direct, usable output: it is unproductive, and must therefore be restrained so far as possible, and ideally be directed into something beneficial to the order.

This means one thing: humans must regard the nuclear family as the highest possible value, and sexual activity must be channeled into attaining, and then maintaining, the family. In times of mass societies, in which direct control would be difficult, the nuclear family serves a dual purpose for the State: it allows the individual a controlled environment within which to exercise some power (and thus distracts from the power that he experiences exacted over him), and provides an excellent cell from which the order can be reproduced, generation after generation.

In this cycle of exploitation, the child becomes both what is at stake, and the victim.

Humans are born with an unrestrained, uninhibited capacity for exploration of sexuality and physical pleasure. The indoctrination must therefore commence with denying this sexuality – both linguistically (“don’t touch yourself down there, that’s dirty”), and corporally (“daddy has a penis that he can use to make babies; yours doesn’t work yet”). Having stolen the child’s inherent sexuality, it will be gradually restored, in the form of a tightly-controlled discourse, which will dictate to the psyche all permissible impulses and behaviors, and treat anything else as shameful. The foundation of that discourse will be based upon two fundamentals: procreation as the primary purpose of sex, and parents’ exclusive right of ownership over their children.

The Family will embody these two pillars. Young children must see it as the source, the route and the goal to happiness. Having already learned from their schoolmates (who model their interactions on the family order) that being ‘different’ is the ultimate evil, the child will be terrorized into conformity: since his body is useless and weak, he must merge with the family, or the gang, in order to survive. He must only use his body when it can be invested, but since his body is owned by the family, he cannot yet invest it because he is not old enough to have ownership rights. The proper way to invest it lies in aspiring to the (future) goal of having his own family, once he has become mature, responsible and financially-secure. Until this moment arrives, he is not ready to have sex. Sex is possible before then, but to ‘prematurely’ engage in it would be to risk future happiness and invite the loneliness and misery of becoming the outsider.

In short, the child must be castrated by fear and the threat of exclusion. Properly programmed in this way, the only significant risk to the child’s conditioning would come through exposure to contact outside the family with poorly-programmed peers or adult strangers. The child must therefore be taught to hate or fear all outsiders. In each child who is ‘different’, he must see someone who is ’sick’; in each unknown adult, he must see someone who is ‘dangerous’.

Hence the pedophile becomes the object of society’s most violent repression (“the worst crime imaginable”) - purely because he violates the foundations of the sexual order (sex as reproduction, and parents as exclusive owners). He is not merely a deviant or a pervert – he is the order’s greatest enemy.

From this, we can see that the child’s inherent sexuality must be allowed to flourish before it can be destroyed and redeployed as a prescribed, medicalized package. ‘Sex at eight’ may well be too late. It is in the infant and the young prepubescent that the majority of the damage is done – denial of sexuality, misappropriation of his body, and instilling the ideal of The Family and the fear of ostracization. Once adolescence has begun, the conditioning is already in place. The ‘rebellious teen’ knows that the family isn’t perfect, that it denies and limits him, but the programming lies silently in the background, urging him that the only solution will be to one day create his own, perfect family. At this stage, even a relaxation of control, minor (pragmatic, appeasing) liberalizations (“masturbation isn’t really bad”) is not too much of a threat to his indoctrination. The mental cruelty, torture, conditioning and sexual castration began much earlier.

To be effective in weakening the self-perpetuating cycle by which the order reproduces, the liberation of a child’s innate capacity for desire and pleasure should therefore begin from infancy.