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With that, allow me to present you with the paper’s pull-no-punches thesis: We argue that this strange, short history of social opportunism, diagnostic amorphism, therapeutic self-interest, and popular cultural endorsement is marked by an essential social conservatism–sex addiction has become a convenient term to describe disapproved sex.

Amorphism, a-mor′fizm, n. a state of being amorphous or without crystallisation even in the minutest particles.—adj.

Bakunin, M., in Italy,�� 57;Hegelian,�� 261; with German Hegelians,�� 261; escape,�� 273; in London,�� 274; Amorphism,�� 274; Lyons insurrection,�� 278; in Zurich,�� 278.

His socialism itself had grown less sane—it was no longer the anarchism of the old days: it was what he called "amorphism"—society not merely without governmental institutions, but without institutions of any kind; and he was domineered by the thought of a universal revolution, in which all States and Churches and all institutions religious, political, judicial, financial, academical, and social should perish in a common destruction.

"Amorphism" and "Pan-destruction" are not articles of a rational creed, but they were propagated with almost preternatural energy by Bakunin.