[lbo-talk] Re: Corporate Porn to Kids

[Curtiss Leung]

>> Somewhere (in _Minima Moralia_ I think) Adorno writes disparagingly
of 
>> "sex taken as exercise."
>
> He also thought homosexuality and totalitarianism made a nice 
> couple LOL.  Adorno on sex, like Scalia on Fire Island Pines, should 
> be consulted for entertainment value only.

I guess you're thinking of "Tough Baby" in _Minima Moralia_, but there 
is also his vigorous denunciation of the German law against
homosexuality 
in the essay "Sexual Taboo and Law Today" in _Critical Models_.  The
second
deserves to be better known than it is.

Maybe I'm just being touchy because he is a favorite thinker of mine,
and
perhaps I am too willing to overlook his faults, but someone who wrote
that that a sound notion just society has its basis in physical
pleasure (again in _MM_--not near the exact formulation, though,
because I don't have the book handy) is not somebody who can be
assimilated
to vicious prudes like Scalia.

Curtiss