[lbo-talk] Not getting laid is the same as being oppressed? (was An Empire of NGOs)

[B.]

Ah, been wanting to use this Michel Houellebecq quote
for awhile now, and the "heteros who don't get laid is
similar to oppression of gays," plus the sex-lib talk,
seems like a good time to trot it out:

"In a totally liberal economic system, certain people
accumulate considerable fortunes; others stagnate in
unemployment and misery. In a totally liberal sexual
system, certain people have a varied and exciting
erotic life; others are reduced to masturbation and
solitude." 

- Houellebecq, from   _Extension du domaine de la
lutte_, 1994

Cheery Schopenhauer type stuff, no?

-B.

andie nachgeborenen wrote:

"This whole notion of 'sexual liberation' strikes me
as highly problematic though, as it seems that the
appeal of many of the kinds of practices Brian has
espoused (e.g. mummification) lies precisely in the
fact that they defy social conventions."