Daily Inspiration Quote by William Glasser

Glasser lands the punchline like a clinician who knows exactly when to stop talking. The line is built on a blunt, almost Mencken-ish contrarianism: it takes a banal observation (people think about sex) and twists it into a moral-social diagnosis (the ones fixated on it are often the least prepared for its consequences). That last clause is the hook, because it invites the reader to fill in the indictment: the “shouldn’t” can mean emotionally immature, coercive, reckless, politically powerful, or simply trapped in a culture of repression and shame.

As a psychologist, Glasser isn’t offering a puritan scold so much as a behavioral critique. His broader therapeutic worldview emphasized responsibility and choice; seen through that lens, sexual obsession becomes a symptom of misdirected needs - for control, validation, escape, status - masquerading as desire. The joke works because it exposes a mismatch between libido and capacity: wanting without the relational skills, ethics, or self-regulation to handle what wanting can do.

The subtext also pokes at hypocrisy. The people publicly policing sex - institutions, elders, “family values” crusaders - often have it most on the brain. That’s not just a gotcha; it’s a commentary on how prohibition manufactures fixation. The line’s sly cruelty is that it refuses to separate private fantasies from public harm: obsession isn’t morally interesting until it starts driving bad decisions.

In a late-20th-century context of changing sexual norms and anxiety about “permissiveness,” Glasser uses humor as a diagnostic tool: if a topic dominates you, it’s worth asking what else in your life is unmet.