> As sexual instinct is an instinct that shapes a _social_ relationship it
> is different than some other instincts. Since culture or symbolic
> systems or social structures or_social_ construction by symbol systems
> constitute socialities or social relations, the social feature of
> biological sexuality impinges on that social structure in a way that
> other instincts like thirst or hunger do not. Thirst and hunger relate
> body and object. Sex relates body and body, i.e. is social.
>
> This why sexual instinct impinges on _social _structure in a way that
> other instincts do not. It is directly and immediately social.
>
> As humans are a uniquely social species, the social , and therefore the
> cultural (which is essentially social; the symbolic is founded in
> sociality) has much more pervasive importance in our lives than it does
> in other species. This is the underlying truth of the cultural
> anthropology schools like Levi-Straussian structuralism. It is this
> principle that Butler is correctly championing. Ironically, the
> exception to this principle in her area of emphasis, sexuality.
>
> On sex uniting the natural and the social, see quote from Marx from
> Econ and Philosophic Manuscripts of 18844 previously posted.
>
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