sex and the left

[joanna bujes]

At 02:39 PM 10/16/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>I generally agree with you, but there is a lot more to it than that. There is
>also an equally idealist (and moralizing) tendency in some quarter of the
>"radical" sexual left: ie. Sex Panic. As Michael Warner more or less put it,
>stuff like erotic vomiting and unsafe sex with "carriers" (ie bugchasing and
>gift-giving) are inherently subversive (and therefore good) precisely b/c they
>question the limits between sex and sickness, public health and individual
>"choice." (All "questioning of limits" is both a moral obligation and an act
>of heroism, in this view. Nevermind where the questions are going.) Public sex
>is good b/c it undermines the public/private distinction. (Although when
>capital does that, it's bad; or is it? I can't remember.)

This isn't sex and it's not radical; it's just pursuing the logic of an 
idea. It may use the sexual as a domain; but it's all constructed and 
directed by thought.

Joanna