> When you want to dissociate yourself from left practices, and when you
> want to maintain and individualist perspective, superior to those nasty
> people out there doing something in concrete conditons, and when you
> want to attack a lot of people without bothering to argue a specific
> point with anyone because then you would have to commit yourself to
> something (and lose your nice clean airy perspective from the high
> pedestal), but when, desiring all these things, you still want to
> maintain the cachet of being a "leftist," then you create something
> called "The Left," you resurrect every tired, moldy, humorless cliche
> that has ever been used to attack feminists, socialists,
> revolutionaries, reformers, etc. and you offer this sincere criticism of
> "The Left" while truly and deeply affirming that you really are doing it
> for "the left's" own good.
>
> Bullshit.
>
> Carrol
I guess Carrol is part of the anti-sex Left.
Somebody could probably rustle up a better definition of "sex-positive," but as a "sex positive" activist I see it as an attempt to reclaim the Left's traditional hostility towards puritanism and oppresive state control of our sexuality. It's also a reaction to puritans in our midst, like Catherine MacKinnon and Andrea Dworkin. "Sex positive" is a reaction to the censors and
prudes in our midst, who use elaborate theories to make us feel guilty about being queer or enjoying stuff like pornography. I'd also say that this tendency recognizes that sexuality and sex are pretty important things to many people and shouldn't be relegated to a back burner by a Left that is preoccupied with "more serious matters."
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