Dysfunctional compensation

Denial may be significant in other respects, however:

"groping": anecdotal evidence suggests a surprising degree of "groping" by even the most eminent conference participants. This would seem to echo use of "groping" towards comprehension and organization of a more desirable global outcome for the formal event. Given the predominant use of linear thinking to this end, there may be a degree of irony with regard to the extent to which curves (and especially the capacity to "handle" them) are a cognitive preoccupation outside the formal context.
engagement with globality: inability to engage effectively with, or engender, more integrative perspectives within conventionally organized formal gatherings may (whether consciously or unconsciously) displace attention into "acting out" such engagement through sexual behaviour of some form -- especially in the sense that it may offer the opportunity for more concrete "proposals" that may give rise to immediate "action".
"conceptual contraceptives": the learned necessities of precautious sexual behaviour -- "safe sex" -- may unconsciously engender analogous precautions in relation to engaging within the formal meeting processes with more creatively integrative projects involving commitment or a change of behaviour (and the possibility of outcomes for which unwelcome responsibility is expected).