What are the politics of sex?
Anarchists have quite the optimistic view. According to many schools of anarchist thought, sex is liberation. Sex is mutual aid.
Then you have the Catholic church. They're quite the opposite. Sex is temptation. Only the holiest of people devote themselves to a life of celibacy.
I don't know what I believe, in fact, I've only really begun to think about the politics of sex, not just in abstract, but in personal context only fairly recently.
Sex has historically been used by the colonizer to dominate communities. Take an example such a colonized Việt Nam. The French colonialists often raped women, not just as a way to terrorize a community, but to feminize the men as well as turn the community against each other. The children of the French colonizers obviously enjoyed far more privileges than the full-blooded Vietnamese children. This was repeated over and over again throughout history. Sex has historically been the weapon of the oppressor.
Where does sex come from? Where does this idea of rape come from? Proponents of Howard Zinn argue that it came from the white man. The colonizer. Where did the white man get the idea of rape?
What does it mean for me to be a heterosexual male and desire sex? Is it really because of some drive to procreate or is it just another system to keep me stupid and down? How many times do I think about sex a day when I could be thinking of a way to free myself?
What does it mean in regards to social division of labor? Language is so telling. Women get fucked. Men do the fucking. Sex usually stops when the man comes. Why is it that men are pimps but women are sluts?
What does it mean to get jealous? Is it some capitalist mind-set/fetish to own something that drives jealousy?
Is sex at the core of objectification?
Are humans naturally monogamous? What the fuck does it mean to be natural, anyways...
I wonder how many a great human being have died because of sex...
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