[lbo-talk] Sexual self-expression

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OK, you can no doubt also deploy such resources to
prove that gay relationships are Bad, or that
voluntarily non-child-bearing relationships, or any
sort at all. With Hegel, Marx, and psychoanalysis to
hand, a few dollps of Sarte, a bit of Heidegger, etc.,
I could construct an argument without a whole lot of
effort that anyone's favorite sexual practices stand
condemned by Reason and Logic. 

What I still want to know about anyone's condemnation
of the harmless sexual practices of consenting adults,
whatever they may be, is Who Asked You? 

Pardon my invoking John Stuart Mill. He was just a
bourgeois liberal after all.


> On this basis, an argument can be constructed that
> sadomasochistic 
> relations are not the "best" relations  i.e. the
> relations capable of 
> producing the greatest pleasure.  Individuals who
> react to the idea of 
> any relations, including sadomasochistic ones, with
> feelings of disgust 
> or condemnation aren't fully autonomous.  Such
> feelings, understood 
> psychoanalytically, are expressions of unmastered
> instinct.  They can 
> also be expressed projectively i.e. by finding them
> in others where 
> they don't exist.
> 

		
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