Date: Fri, 23 Jan 1998 20:23:40 -0500
From: Yoshie Furuhashi <Furuhashi.1-AT-osu.edu>
Subject: M-TH: Toward the Abolition of Heterosexuality?


Rob wrote:
>For formal freedom to become real freedom, all must observe obligations to
>their fellows (the really free woman, when she comes along, would express
>that freedom in part by extending like freedom to the child) - that's sort
>of Hegelian, I think, and Marx never threw it away.  'Trouble is, by
>itself, it also sounds a bit like Rawls ...

Really free women, when they come along, will reject unwanted pregnancy
imposed upon them as physical punishment justified by a sort of
existentialist philosophy.

In the socialist society that Rob imagines, only unwavering lesbians can be
"really free women." Then again, even they won't be really free, because
oppression created by pregnancy sentences will breed sexism and the gender
caste system, which will in turn constrain the freedoms of lesbians as
women.

Therefore, the only solution to this predicament in Rob's imaginary society
will be the *abolition of heterosexuality as we have known it*;
penile-vaginal insertion must be reserved for special occasions of willful
reproduction (for the old fashioned) and people mostly reproduce by
artificial insemination, while enjoying other forms of sexual acts and
fantasies. So Rob, your stance is only tenable if you are the kind of sex
radical given to utopian imagination; then again, all the sex radicals I
know and am fond of are pro-choice.

Yoshie




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