[lbo-talk] Instinct

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Sat Nov 19 11:05:35 PST 2005


Miles Jackson wrote:
>
>
> "Underneath" all that culture that Butler and others discuss, do any
> significant number of humans have instinctive attraction to the
> opposite sex or is all sexual attraction socially
> constructed/cultural/symbolic ?
>
> Yes, definitely!


:-)

I can't remember what chapter the passage is in, but this point is made clearly by Marx when he contrasts "eating" under hunter/gatherer conditions and "eating" with a knive and fork in the 19th c.

Carrol



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