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Pierre Tremblay attended universities
for seven years and specialized in geology, French literature, education,
and physical education. He then acquired the equivalent of another six
years of university education in the behavioral sciences. One study objective
was the understanding of human male sexuality, with a focus on individuals
who have violent heterosexual fantasies reflecting a hatred for women,
and males who act out these fantasies. They include rapists, rape-murderers,
possibly all wife batterers, and other males.
As a young boy, Pierre knew he was
gender nonconformable to a certain degree, but he always appreciated the
blend of male and female attributes in his character. Because of this,
he did not behave as the more gender conformable boys did. He did not perceive
girls to be inferior to boys as it has been the traditional male perception
of females in many cultures. He often wondered why so many married males
in his community abused their wives in numerous ways, almost as if doing
this was acceptable. Both his father and grandfather were abusers of women
but they did not rape or batter their wives as many males have done and
continue to do.
Upon entering puberty, Pierre was
presented with sexual fantasies involving significant abuses of women.
His visual mind screen has been well developed for other purposes
since early childhood, and these fantasies were another manifestation of
the highly visual nature of his brain. They were accepted as being another
aspect of himself, but he sometimes wondered about them and eventually
investigated their origins. Generally, this aspect of self was considered
to be somewhat foreign and at odds with his conscious sense of Self; it
was almost like another personality or entity was existing
within.
Pierre has followed the Socratic
Know Thyself process best rendered in French (and in other languages)
by the equivalent expression "Know Thyself, Thyself."
The expression suggests that a dual personality-like process is involved
in such work, akin to the dual personality situation detected to
exist sexually, and to the good/evil human nature attributes scholars
have noted and written about for thousands of years. As a rule, men have
also manifested a duality in their historical responses to women; they
were both loved and hated leading to the often stated belief that love
and hate are closely related as rendered in expressions like "All is fair
in love and war." The near-end of this duality occurred as Pierre
was accepting his predominant homosexual orientation, an event associated
with his vanishing heterosexuality.
Pierre has been sexually active with
males since be was five years old. In adolescence, however, he only had
romantic love responses for girls, had girlfriends, but continued to have
sex with males. A romantic love response for a male first occurred at the
age of 22 years and his response to the event was highly positive, but
there were troubling implications given that he wanted to marry and be
a father. This experience placed him on a self-understanding journey, the
focus being on all inner realities. His recognized violence-related heterosexuality
led to the study of men's traditional abuses of women and there was an
intimate relationship between male heterosexuality and social violence
problems.
Anti-gay violence was also studied.
The targets of such violence have generally been males deemed to be "like
women" or "visibly gay:" the ones often referred to as "queers," "fags,"
"pansies," etc. An extreme form of sexism was therefore implicated in both
anti-gay violence and violence against women; the perpetrators of such
violence have had an extremely low opinion of anything "feminine," including
men who are deemed to be "like women." From 1985 to 1987, Pierre focused
on Women's Studies and completed a 500-page manuscript on male heterosexuality
by 1990. During this period, Homosexuality Studies were also endeavored
into and focused on for the past three years.
