Sunday, January 20, 2008

The Greeks, I think they invented Bi (sexuality)

I owe this title to my flat mate El. Bi sexuality seems to come up in pop culture quite often. I have my own idea about it which I attempt to align more with a conceptualization of sexuality that is pre 20th century. To make a long story short the rise of the 20th century lead to the static sexual categories that we now have. I think we need to move away from the shallow anti humanistic categories of hetero/homo sexuality. There are multiple components to sex/ love/relationships. If “we” were to expand our understanding of sexuality to be more inclusive grounded in humanism rather than misogyny, classim, racism or homophobia, we would all have the opportunity to express every aspect of ourselves. In other words you, I , us could begin to focus on people and not on social position.

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