Stupid question that keeps nagging me:
Starting with the beginning of time on earth, how could life have developed in a non-heterosexist way, yet still lead to consistent life creation in order to replace those who died?
Is heterosexism only about the de jure structural institutions that undergird the concept of the nuclear family, or does heterosexism exist outside of that, even in the very idea of the natural pairing of men and women for procreation?
In other words, since it has only recently become possible to create new humans in any way other than by men and women having sex with each other, how could that have been the de facto norm in a non-oppressive way? Isn't the very fact that procreation between men and women was necessary for the population of the planet going to lead us in a heterosexist direction no matter what?
Another stupid question:
If procreation had no sexual pleasure connected with it, and the making of new humans was just another job or societal reponsibility, would humans be extinct by now?
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