The missing footage was deemed too extreme and too provocative in its depiction of gay S&M subculture for mainstream audiences, and so this bid at reenactment is ostensibly meant to confront that controversy head on and, in doing so, upend deeply
held cultural anxieties about gay male sexuality and sex.
He proposed that the psychological basis of cooperation, competition, and emotional and mental health is a tendency to
hold tightly to
anxiety - buffering
cultural world views or «immortality projects» that serve as the basis for self - esteem and meaning.