When we start confusing fixations with sexual freedom, we're in trouble.
NOBODY on this list has ever argued that people with sexual fixations should suffer in any way whatsoever.....the only thing that happens on this list, is that sometimes people speculate on what some of these fixations might mean. We are talking about the social unconscious...or trying to.
I am using "fixation" as a descriptive term, not a derogatory term. I do not think of homosexuality as a "fixation."
Also, I find it really, really weird that a Buddhist should write the way you (Brian) do about the valid "self-expression" of people who are totally conditioned by the forces that Woj describes.
That was a great post Woj. Clear as a bell.
Joanna
Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:
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>>Why is it comodity fetishism and not sexual expression?
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>>Somebody likes to be mummified. Some prefer the feel of leather,
>>others latex, others saran wrap, some even plaster (it is a bitch
>>getting them out).
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>Brian, you can wrap yourself in whatever you want, even the American flag,
>if that stirs you up. All I was arguing was that not everything can be
>reduced to sexual rituals of one kind of another - there is life after sex,
>after all. I tried to point out the non-sexual dimensions of the debate.
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>Wojtek
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