Anyway, I'm not a deontological sexual traditionalist. It's fine if you disagree I'm not proselytizing.
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The problem is that in fact sex is not like buying a cheese along a few important axes, and you can't just toss deontology and immediately start screaming no gods no masters I mean you can and I kind of respect that but it comes with some problems
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In this specific case, the issue is it seems to me that sex is an ekstatic state spelled with a k so that you know im serious about the greek etymology
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The thing that prompted this entire line of thought was that dumb patriarchy museum or whatever it was There was a class of (fourth?) graders going through and in particular one piece was an older fairly obese naked lady just standing there The kids looked really uncomfortable
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and that makes total sense to me, and I was fortunately able to make legible to myself the nature of my objection it's certainly not the exhibit in isolation; I can see it nicely riffing on Celle qui fut la belle heaulmière, frinstance
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Rather--and maybe this isn't quite as crisp as I'd like--the caricatured left position seems to end up in a place like this, in an uncomfortable aughtistic tangle "By our theory sex and nudity should be mundane human behavior, and by God we will act as if they are so"
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For most people, sex is not mundane; it is ecstatic. You can build whatever systems you like to contradict this, and I expect in the long run you will have all the fortune of King Pentheus.
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"In five years, the penis will become obsolete." Opening line of John Varley's Steel Beach
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