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Sexual Politics

Here are two links to articles related to the topic of this thread, one from Newsweek, one from Psychology Today.

Why Does Sex Always End Up Being Political?
Sex “burns at the intersection of existence, identity and power,” says Eric Berkowitz, author of The Boundaries of Desire, a book about the legal boundaries of sexuality over the past century. According to Berkowitz, these laws were mostly absurd and served a system of oppression that placed a lid on people’s sex lives.

There’s a reason why such an instinctual, animal act should find itself in five thousand years of legislation. It is perhaps the highest form of human intimacy, both physically and emotionally, but sex and sexuality are inherently political—a tool that shifts balances of power, and also one that reflects (and sometimes challenges) cultural norms.

Berkowitz’s Boundaries of Desire insists that all of these laws and practices revolve around control, around dominance and the “thrill to forbidding others what they desire,” as Slate puts it. By placing limits around sexual acts and interests, cultures and governments can define sex on its own terms, rather than allowing people to explore their own sexuality, to be vulnerable and to want physical closeness.
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Why Does Sex Always End Up Being Political?


“Politics? I’m Interested in Sex, Not Politics.”
Thousands of laws regulate our sexual expression. It pays to know a few.

There are literally thousands of laws that regulate our sexual expression--who we can have sex with, what we can do, the products and pharmaceuticals we can use, the ways in which we can control our reproduction, and the ways we can share what we do with others. Who makes these laws? Politicians—from mighty senators to self-righteous state legislators to friendly city council members.

Think you’re not interested politics? Think again. If you’re involved in sex, here are a few ways you’re involved in politics, whether you know it or not:
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Read further here:
“Politics? I’m Interested in Sex, Not Politics.” | Psychology Today
 
Angel said:
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Anyone notice Adam looks like a young Sly Stallone?
 
Here's another topical article no one will read.

How ‘Cheap Sex’ Is Changing Our Lives – and Our Politics

Perhaps nothing is more central to the American culture wars than sex. This should come as no surprise: As members of a sexually reproducing species, we have a natural interest in the act of reproduction. Little wonder, then, that sex and its offshoots —abortion, contraception, teen, pre- and extramarital sex, pornography, and now gender identity — are so prominent in our partisan bickering. Red America hates women, Blue America kills babies. Sex gets the people going.

Yet for all of its prominence in our politics (and regardless of how much importance we attach to it in our individual lives), our understanding of sex is often remarkably narrow. It’s not that we know nothing — we know a lot — but the nature of our knowledge is limited: the mechanics of the act, the social rituals and expectations surrounding it, and maybe various pop theories for why men and women act the way they do. Only rarely, however, are we aware of the structural forces acting on our romantic lives in the same way that the pressures of supply and demand influence the price of coffee.

These structural forces and their consequences are the topic of Mark Regnerus’s book Cheap Sex: The Transformation of Men, Marriage, and Monogamy...
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How ‘Cheap Sex’ Is Changing Our Lives — and Our Politics
 
PTF said:
No matter our beliefs, we all can agree having sex is just plain fun.
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No, I don't agree. Having sex is seldom JUST plain fun. It almost always has other complicated implications. Evolutionary psychology indicates this is even more likely to be the case for women that for men.
 
INTIMACY IS POLITICAL
Sex, Gender, Language, Power

Through some of the most relevant aesthetic and conceptual proposals of the current artistic scene, the exhibition INTIMACY IS POLITICAL reflects on gender as a social construction that determines the behaviors of the sexed bodies, the discriminatory uses of language and the strategies of power that, by maintaining the domination / submission binomial, produce physical, cultural and ideological violence in both public and private spaces.

Patriarchal societies have established limits between the public and the private, between the social and the domestic, between the personal and the political. These limits –both visible and invisible– have perpetuated the masculine appropriation of knowledge and power and have resulted in the feminization of poverty and sexual violence, which is mostly exercised against women. Today, intersectional feminism questions such structures of domination and exclusion, analyzes how masculinity is affirmed through violence and how the body of women –rented, abused, subjected– is the last frontier of capitalism.
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Intimacy is Political - Sex, Gender, Language, Power

The feminist viewpoint.
What do you think of it?
 
devildavid said:
That is the view of a woman. What do you think of it?
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I think it's ridiculous. What do you think of it? (This is the second time you're being asked; if you don't reply, but instead respond to my reply, then we're done discussing this, you and I.)
 
Angel said:
I think it's ridiculous. What do you think of it? (This is the second time you're being asked; if you don't reply, but instead respond to my reply, then we're done discussing this, you and I.)
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Why is it ridiculous? Make your case. And why do you falsely portray one woman's view as the very general view of feminism? There is much more to feminism than what you present as feminism.
 
devildavid said:
Why is it ridiculous? Make your case. And why do you falsely portray one woman's view as the very general view of feminism? There is much more to feminism than what you present as feminism.
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Goodbye, David. If you're not going to answer the question, then we have nothing to discuss.
 
Angel said:
Goodbye, David. If you're not going to answer the question, then we have nothing to discuss.
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And if you are going to present strawman arguments, expect to be called out on it.
 
devildavid said:
Have fun talking to yourself.
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I have discovered, in the course of my long past experience in the B&S forum, that exchanging posts with you in point of fact amounts to talking to myself, thank you.
If you cared to discuss the matter at hand, you would have answered my question, as I did when you asked me the same question in turn.
Have fun posting,
 
Angel said:
I have discovered, in the course of my long past experience in the B&S forum, that exchanging posts with you in point of fact amounts to talking to myself, thank you.
If you cared to discuss the matter at hand, you would have answered my question, as I did when you asked me the same question in turn.
Have fun posting,
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Keep your thread alive with pictures and quotes. It must be riveting for you.
 
Can men and women work together?

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~ I believe with the "progressive" ultra liberal type everything is politicized . With the rest of us no.💘
 
LosAngelesAngel said:
~ I believe with the "progressive" ultra liberal type everything is politicized . With the rest of us no.��
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I think you've said something quite true here. The politicization of personal life does seem to be a partisan issue.
 
Angel said:
The danger of the #MeToo movement.

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Sounds like a man with something to hide.

So what should victims of private offenses do? Remain silent? Those offenders are often very careful about when they commit their offenses. Should the victims just put it down to we all make mistakes and have secrets so we are all equally culpable? That is BS.
 
devildavid said:
Sounds like a man with something to hide.

So what should victims of private offenses do? Remain silent? Those offenders are often very careful about when they commit their offenses. Should the victims just put it down to we all make mistakes and have secrets so we are all equally culpable? That is BS.
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If the offense rises to the level of a crime, report it at once to the proper authorities. If the offense does not rise to the level of a crime, then deal with it privately.
What you don't do is form a lunch mob.
 
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