first, an empirical/theoretical/science? problem lots of these divisions are probably not real instead theyre imposed over a continuous distribution with a single fat mode near the median dont :clap: classify :clap: unless :clap: the :distribution :clap: is :clap: multimodal
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second, because of the way that people *identify* with specific sexual practices and habits, this probably discourages actual self-knowledge by creating ossified (and maybe wrong???!!!!) identities
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sexual preferences are goopy and context-dependent and etc etc if you want satisfaction and self-knowledge, keep your sexual identity small and personal numinous identity vs olympic identity
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this is immediately a consequence of language. lumping and splitting are things that language does to the world. acts of ontological violence, in my view. it's all word games down here. yet another variety of monkey trouble.
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can't we just ask every human to say whether or not they're attracted to every other human & do PCA on the resulting attraction matrix
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Gender categories as epicycles (magical celestial spheres!) might be my favourite analogy I've read this week.
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