[A-List] (Fwd) Re: Clash of Sexual Civilizations (was Re: ahma

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

On 10/25/07, Macdonald Stainsby <mstainsby at resist.ca> wrote:
>
> Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
> >
> > Why can't people simply be without such notions as homosexuals,
> > bisexuals, and heterosexuals and struggle for the right to have the
> > kind of sex, same-sex or different-sex, they want between consenting
> > adults?
>
> Yoshie, queers have just as many sexual dysfunctions as the rest of us.
> The horridly gross way you express this means that if a gay man is
> impotent or has no sex drive then he has nothing to fight for. Fuck
> that! Queer people have a community, just as the Italian neighbourhood
> down the street you might go to for a good coffee.

Those who adopt the discourse of sexual orientations and then find
themselves in a minority may wish to have a community based on their
minority status, but what if you create a nation in which all people
have the right to have sex, same-sex sex or different-sex sex, the way
they want to between consenting adults?  In such a nation, those who
regularly have same-sex sex, exclusively or in combination with
different-sex sex, may be a majority of people.  In such a case, just
about the whole nation is queer, and that sounds better to me than
confining the freedom to have same-sex sex to a queer minority.
-- 
Yoshie