File spoon-archives/marxism-thaxis.archive/marxism-thaxis_1998/marxism-thaxis.9803, message 1287


Date: Tue, 31 Mar 1998 21:27:37 -0500
From: Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1-AT-osu.edu>
Subject: Re: M-TH: Re: Sociobiology


James H wrote:
>Developed human behaviours, such as flirting, wooing, marrying, cheating
>are simply unnatural, because they are all carried out in the space that
>mankind has won from natural necessity, though its collective
>endeavours.
>
>>         All social construction ?
>
>'Social construction' theory is flawed because it suggests that human
>instituions are conscious products 'constructed'. But nmore often than
>not these are generated without a conscious plan. sexual life is
>certainly the outcome of an evolution, its just not a natural evolution.

Between natural necessity and conscious products of human purposive
thought/activity, there is a huge space, and sexuality is neither natural
nor totally under conscious human control, so I agree with James here.

Sexuality and sexual identity-fetishes as we experience and think about
them have been fundamentally determined by social relations and ideology.

That said, in both sexuality and eating, one can learn to acquire new
tastes, so I don't think sexuality totally escapes our conscious efforts to
experiment with it either.

Yoshie




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