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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?
“Politics? I’m Interested in Sex, Not Politics.”
Thousands of laws regulate our sexual expression. It pays to know a few.
“Politics? I’m Interested in Sex, Not Politics.” | Psychology Today
Why Does Sex Always End Up Being Political?
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.
“Politics? I’m Interested in Sex, Not Politics.”
Thousands of laws regulate our sexual expression. It pays to know a few.
Read further here: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:
“Politics? I’m Interested in Sex, Not Politics.” | Psychology Today