Subject: Re: M-TH: Pleasure or Procreationism?
Date: Wed, 1 Apr 1998 08:43:40 -0500 (EST)
From: "hoov" <hoov-AT-freenet.tlh.fl.us>


> It seems to me that there is an identifiable current of thought on this
> list, which seeks to define sex and sexuality not on the basis of pleasure
> but on the basis of their alleged 'natural basis' upon procreation.
> Procreationism is in my view anti-pleasure, in that sex and sexuality
> unrelated to reproduction but productive of pleasure are, according to the
> logic of Procreationism, to be thought of as 'less natural' than a limited
> and specific form of sex act that can be used for the purpose of
> reproduction.
> Yoshie

agree with above...although I term the distinction 'procreation-recreation'
because of its word-play...Michael Hoover


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