Methcalarjalope
Offline
Post: 55828559_1 created on Mon Nov 02, 2009 11:10 amPosted: Mon Nov 02, 2009 11:10 am
 |
Our sexuality is a significant portion of who we are at the core of our being. Even if you view human beings as a set of behaviors resultant from gene-prompts otherwise known as instincts. Our sexuality is there at the creation of who we are yet how it is expressed is also a cultural construct and sometimes to a very narrow degree dependant on the pressures of a given culture to conform.
Whether you view this through the lens of a kind of determinism, or if you are an artistic type who views human nature more poetically, you and I as human beings have complex and multi-layered "selves" that require nurturance to thrive enough to make an appearance on the horizon of our time allotted in life. We will never be musicians if never make music, in other words. We may have music within us, but the world will never hear it if we do not give expression to this music, and this requires permission or encouragement. In a world were music is forbidden we are left to humming quietly in our room or walking deep into the forest to let forth a gale of soulful notes. Sexuality is also about whom we attract. There is a sad saying from The Wizard of Oz, that a man is not counted by how much he loved but by how much he was loved by others. This is also a theme of Dicken's, A Christmas Carol. We can be like the Tin Man with no heart, who found the gift he sought at the end of his journey. He was beloved! Or we can find ourselves like Scrouge, who never gave and never loved by held back demanding others give to him first. Animals do not mate based upon strictly superfical reasons, therefore as we are also animals, neither do we. Sexuality and mating is either hardwired or at some level a part of who we are at the core of our being. There is some mate selection involved based upon traits, but their is also the instinct itself, that like hunger drives us to eat or to mate irrespective of superficial traits. But unlike many other animals, we may chose to go hungry until we starve. We can chose to refrain from sex if we decide it. This topic is not about chastity. Animals are not superficial and neither are we. I would expect that the proof of this is the man or woman who deeply believes he or she was born the wrong gender. Position: Human Sexuality is NOT entirely superficial at all. Per Verd's request: Quote: We are animals, animals are animals. Animals do not abstract they don't "think about" their sexuality. There mating is instinctual or in otherwords biologically driven. We differ from other animals in our ability to abstract and to think about our actions; to have self consciousness, self awareness. To this degree we may select superficial qualities that attract us, however deep inside us we are hardwired for mating selection that is far stronger than what we percieve. |
|
