Reply #42: I didn't think you were a Freudian

[Time for change]

In fact I would have doubted it.

I was just responding to your reference to a Freudian idea in your post.

Tell me this. If one feels "guilty" for sexual behaviors from which no harm accures to others, then how is that differentiated from shame? I guess you could say that it is because it is caused by specific actions rather than a feeling of one's whole self being worthless. But isn't there overlap of shame and guilt on that score? Or to put it another way, wouldn't it be reasonable to say that if someone feels "guilty" over behaviors that caused no harm to anyone or even any foreseeable harm, then that could better be termed shame than guilt?

It just makes more sense to me to look at it that way.