Sexuality
"The history of medicine proves that in so
far as man seeks to know himself and face his whole nature, he has
become free from bewildered fear, despondent shame, or arrant hypocrisy.
As long as sex is dealt with in the current confusion of ignorance
and sophistication, denial and indulgence, suppression and stimulation,
punishment and exploitation, secrecy and display, it will be associated
with a duplicity and indecency that lead neither to intellectual
honesty nor human dignity."
"The dilemma of traditional sex research lay in the unconscious,
but unquestiongly assumed division into opposing drives and hereditary
factors. . . The division into heterosexuality and homosexuality,
into hetersexuals and homosexuals, is also an artefact that rests
on a grave error, namely, on the assumption that a fundamentally
different model is necessary to explain heteorsexual and homosexual
behavior. The entire investigation of etiology was ideologically
loaded beforehand because it separated a segment of the sexual contiuum
and attempted to make analyses with the help of fundamentally different
concepts."
"Scientific ideologies in change: Fear of Homosexuality as
an Intellectual Event", 1977
"Institutionalised in sports, the military, acculturated sexuality,
the history and mythology of heroism, violence is taught to boys
until they becomes its advocates."
"We're trained to see only male or female and to plot people
into those categories when they actually don't fit neatly at all.
But if we pause, watch and listen closely we'll see the multiplicity
of ways in which people are sexed and gendered. There exists a range
of personal identifications around woman, man, in-between--we don't
even have names or pronouns that reflect that in between place but
people certainly live in it."
"Sex is one of the 9 reasons for reincarnation, the other 8
are unimportant."
"One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the
other."
"Of the delights of this world man cares most for sexual intercourse,
yet he has left it out of his heaven."
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