Re: Memes and sexuality

From: Kenneth Van Oost (Kenneth.Van.Oost@village.uunet.be)
Date: Thu Jul 20 2000 - 20:34:15 BST

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    ----- Original Message -----
    From: Bill Spight <bspight@pacbell.net>

    > > It seems to me that one of the key events in the development of sexual
    > > repression may have been the discovery some time in the past 100,000
    years
    > > that sex causes pregnancy and childbirth.
    >
    > Timothy Taylor, in "The Prehistory of Sex" (Bantam, 1996), sees a link
    with
    > animal husbandry. "The essence of keeping a meat or dairy herd is not just
    > in the patterns of slaughter, but in controlling the ratios of the sexes
    > and their mating patterns. . . . The control of animal sexuality by men
    may
    > have had its analogue in control of the sexuality of human females" (p.
    > 175). He also sees a link to homophobia.

    << control of the sexuality of human females, what does Taylor mean_
    1_ only giving birth to boys is allowed !?
    2_ to give woman no pleasure in sex, that is circumcision !? >>

    Regards,

    Kenneth

    ( I am, because we are)

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