I have never read Butler, but intuitively a specifically heterosexual urge is not needed for procreation; all you need is for the sexual "urge," if you want to call it that, to result in at least some amount of heterosexual sexual acitivity.
--- wrobert at uci.edu wrote:
> >
> Fundamentally, heterosexuality is not an
> 'urge.' Its a set of
> knowledges and institutional structures that
> structure society. It
> operates in legal structures, the pedagogy of public
> school, etc.
> It also should be noted that it is a fairly
> contingent structure in
> the long duree. Even the conventional notions of
> sex, gender, and
> marriage (to take a few examples of discursive
> structures) of today
> would be deeply alien to earlier conceptions of
> those institutions
> (if they even existed.)
> As to the question of biology, Butler deals
> with this question in
> the book to an extent (see pages 107-111 in the
> first edition).
> This primarily draws from the work of Ann
> Fausto-Sterling. The
> work looks at the way that cultural assumptions
> effect biological
> claims on sex and gender.
>
> robert wood
>
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