Paedomorphism & Neoteny in the West: Exploring Sexuality, Dominance, and Submission in Western Culture.Neoteny (of North American [caucasian,] females in particular,) appears to be a growing trend (submission, and vulnerable narcissism,) in post Patriot Act America; in which torture, and failure of rule of law have become commonplace [Abasement]. This may include homosexual 'movements'.Neoteny: "The retention of juvenile features in the adult animal," (human evolution, developmental retardation.)"Discusses the role of neoteny in US perceptions of animals. Behavioral dependency and submissiveness signify human control over both symbolic and actual animals and insure an ever-tightening web of domination over these species. The more animals are neotenized, the more enchanting and endearing they become. When animals are made into irrepressible children via neotenization, it is no doubt easier for humans to overlook the animal qualities seen and perhaps disliked in themselves." -Lawrence (1986)----Bjorklund, David F. "The role of immaturity in human development." Psychological bulletin 122.2 (1997): 153.Brin, David. "neoteny and two-way sexual selection in human evolution: Paleo-anthropological speculation on the origins of secondary-sexual traits, male nurturing, and the child as a sexual image." Journal of Social and Evolutionary Systems 18.3 (1995): 257-276. ["Human adults more closely resemble chimp and gorilla infants than adults of either of those species-even aged humans often retain a plasticity of behavior that is typically found among animals only in the young. Why does the human female generally have to to compete with other women to get a mate? May we stipulate that women do often vie over men? In one contemporary society, the United States, nearly all of the most popular magazines for women trumpet articles advising their readers how to stay competitive in what is portrayed as a desperate struggle to find and keep a mate. Granted, contemporary America is an extreme case, and even women in secure marriages work on their appearance for other cultural reasons. Still, no one can reasonably dispute that female humans often do engage in zero-sum contention over an apparently limited supply of suitable males."]Brüne, Martin. "Neoteny, psychiatric disorders and the social brain: Hypotheses on heterochrony and the modularity of the mind." Anthropology & Medicine 7.3 (2000): 301-318. ["Early researchers suggested a single heterochronic shift towards neoteny, defined as the persistence of embryonic, foetal, or juvenile features of the ancestral species into adulthood of the descendants by slowing of growth and delayed maturation. Neoteny has been considered the hallmark of human evolution, leading to persistent curiosity, playfulness, and emotional attachment."]Bufill, Enric, Jordi Agustí, and Rafael Blesa. "Human neoteny revisited: The case of synaptic plasticity." American Journal of Human Biology 23.6 (2011): 729-739.Diogo, Rui, Christopher M. Smith, and Janine M. Ziermann. "Evolutionary developmental pathology and anthropology: A new field linking development, comparative anatomy, human evolution, morphological variations and defects, and medicine." Developmental Dynamics 244.11 (2015): 1357-1374.Elder. (2014). The Fish Pain Debate: Broadening Humanity’s Moral Horizon. Journal of Animal Ethics, 4(2), 16. doi:10.5406/janimalethics.4.2.0016 ["This article explores the moral complexities and inconsistencies in the perception of fish welfare; mainly, that fish lack the ability to suffer and, therefore, exist outside of humanity’s moral horizon."]Godfrey, L. R., & Sutherland, M. R. (1996). Paradox of peramorphic paedomorphosis: Heterochrony and human evolution. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 99(1), 17–42. doi:10.1002/ajpa.1330990102 Irvine, Leslie. "The question of animal selves: Implications for sociological knowledge and practice." Qualitative Sociology Review 3.1 (2007): 5-22. ["The question of whether sociologists should investigate the subjective experience of non-human others arises regularly in discussions of research on animals. Sociological study of the moral status of animals, based on the presence of the self, is warranted because our treatment of animals is connected with numerous “mainstream” sociological issues. As knowledge has brought other forms of oppression to light."]Jones, Doug, and Kim Hill. "Criteria of facial attractiveness in five populations." Human Nature 4.3 (1993): 271-296. ["Evidence from social psychology suggests that both average proportions and (in females) “neotenous” facial traits are indeed more attractive. Using facial photographs from three populations (United States, Brazil, Paraguayan Indians), rated by members of the same three populations, plus Russians and Venezuelan Indians, we show that age, average features, and (in females) feminine/neotenous features all play a role in facial attractiveness."]Jones, Doug, et al. "Sexual selection, physical attractiveness, and facial neoteny: Cross-cultural evidence and implications [and comments and reply]." Current anthropology 36.5 (1995): 723-748.Jones, Doug. "An evolutionary perspective on physical attractiveness." Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews: Issues, News, and Reviews 5.3 (1996): 97-109.Lawrence, Elizabeth A. "Werewolves in psyche and cinema: man-beast transformation and paradox." The Journal of American Culture 19.3 (1996): 103.Montagu, MF Ashley. "Time, morphology, and neoteny in the evolution of man." American Anthropologist (1955): 13-27.Paul, Robert A. "The question of applied psychoanalysis and the interpretation of cultural symbolism." Ethos 15.1 (1987): 82-103.Paul, Robert A. "Psychoanalytic anthropology." Annual Review of Anthropology 18 (1989): 177-202.Paul, R. A. (2005). Beneath the Crust of Culture: Psychoanalytic Anthropology and the Cultural Unconscious in American Life. Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society, 10(3), 341–344. doi:10.1057/palgrave.pcs.21000Serpell, J. A. (1987). Pet-Keeping in Non-Western Societies: Some Popular Misconceptions. Anthrozoös, 1(3), 166–174. doi:10.2752/089279388787058443 ["Throughout history the world’s wealthy and ruling classes have demonstrated a powerful affinity for pets."]Shea, B. T. (1989). Heterochrony in human evolution: The case for neoteny reconsidered. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 32(S10), 69–101. doi:10.1002/ajpa.1330320505 Stein, Howard F. "Beneath the crust of culture: Psychoanalytic anthropology and the cultural unconscious in American life." Beneath the Crust of Culture. Brill, 2004.Waldhorn, D. R. (2019). Toward a New Framework for Understanding Human–Wild Animal Relations. American Behavioral Scientist, 000276421983046. doi:10.1177/0002764219830465 ["Most animals live in the wild and a majority probably have lives of net suffering. An increasing number of ethicists argue that humans have a duty to help them. Nevertheless, people’s attitudes and perceptions toward wild animal suffering have rarely been studied."]Wehr, Paul Arthur. Three theories for facial paedomorphosis in human evolution and the preference for facial underdevelopment. Diss. University of British Columbia, 2005.----Also see:[Social Brain Hypothesis][Two-way Sexual Selection]["Humanity's Moral Horizon"] [Dehumanization (Dominance)][Institutional Violence][Social Learning][Referent Shift][Moral Status of Animals (non-human others)][Ethnopsychology][Psychoanalytic Anthropology][Problems of Perception][4CHAN: Ponies (Fluffy Abuse)][Archives of Sexual Behavior (1971-1980)]['Black & White' thinking (Object Constancy; Piaget)]Lawrence, Elizabeth A. "Neoteny in American perceptions of animals." Journal of Psychoanalytic anthropology (1986).Tiffany, Kaitlyn "My Little Pony Fans Are Ready to Admit They Have a Nazi Problem ... The fandom was born on 4chan, the largest den of chaos and toxic beliefs," The Atlantic, 23 June 2020.Poiani, Aldo. "Animal Homosexuality in an evolutionary perspective." Animal Homosexuality: A Biosocial Perspective (2010): 1-28.["homosexual behaviour may be what we would now call a neotenic trait"]Psychosocial Conflicts & Crisis (Ego-fragmentation, and post-traumatic loss of coherence) https://archive.org/details/bordow1976/Female Choice (Sexual Selection) https://archive.org/details/perper1989/Capitalism, Prostitution, and War https://archive.org/details/capitalism_war_prostitution/The Impulse to Dominate https://archive.org/details/img-8701TNA-000-A, (Bronx Project) https://archive.org/details/tn-a-000-aThe Moral Status of Micehttps://archive.org/details/herzog1988_202202----Altruistic Narcissism (Destructive Obedience) https://archive.org/details/alt_narc_do/Aggression & Social Status (Dyads, Destructive Obedience, and Identity Threat) https://archive.org/details/card-et-al-2005/Institutionally sanctioned violence: Social Learning theory (Albert Bandura) https://archive.org/details/bandura1973/Humiliation in Asymmetric Conflict, (Clark McCauley, and the Frustration-Aggression hypothesis)https://archive.org/details/mc-cauley-2017-4/Object Constancy & Psychopathology (Salman Akhtar) https://archive.org/details/kaplan1972/Neubauer, Peter B. (Object Relations) https://archive.org/details/journal-of-the-american-academy-of-child-psychiatry-volume-25-issue-1-1986-doi-1[Manpower (Labor & War)][Psycho-sexual Aggression (Freud; ego-libidinal, frustration)][Sadism / Masochism][Harsh Superego (Punishment)][Regression]----Waititi, Taika "Jojo Rabbit," Fox Searchlight Pictures, 2019.[Imaginative history of German National Socialism, framed through a display of neotenic traits.]----Freeholders: Disenfranchisement & Sufferage in America https://archive.org/details/freeholder_smallholder/Is National Socialism a new order? https://archive.org/details/pfrederick-is-national-socialism-a-new-order-1941/