File spoon-archives/foucault.archive/foucault_2001/foucault.0102, message 49


Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 02:14:06 +0000
From: "Larry W. Chappell" <larchap-AT-deltaland.net>
Subject: Re: Can two men make a baby?


I had sex with the great bachelor Kant once. He was confused about the whole
thing. He could not figure out whether he was doing it out of duty or inclination.
In the end, he state his firm opposition to sex with sheep.

JBCM2-AT-aol.com wrote:

> given the current thread on whether Foucault is either a normative or a
> transcendental homosexual/gay/queer, this may be appropriate....
>
> SALON.COM
> Can two men make a baby?
> Researchers say it's possible, but lawmakers must pave the way.
>
> - - - - - - - - - - - -
> By Theresa Pinto Sherer
>
> Jan. 31, 2001 | It has been close to four years since the replication of Dolly
> the sheep -- not a very long time considering the lumbering progress of
> science. Still, cloning now seems like an old, tired subject that pops up
> periodically in the media, a run-of-the-mill hot-button topic that has become
> a
> part of the American glossary of debatable issues, like gay rights or
> abortion.
>
> Not coincidentally, each of these issues is inherently tied to the other: All
> involve life choices that revolve around sex, our national obsession. Of
> course, humanity's preoccupation with sex is just a cloak for its true
> obsession with reproduction or, more precisely, immortality.
>
> Full text:
> http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2001/01/31/eggs/index.html


   

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