I’m getting to this discussion quite late and I don’t have that much useful stuff to add, but want to register that I had a very strong reaction to this:
“I think explicit sexuality is inherently anti-intellectual.”
This sentiment scares me, because I think healthy sexual cultures desperately need rationality, curiosity, intellectual inquiry, etc. There’s the “people should learn about how to have safe sex before they actually have sex” thing, but there’s also things like figuring out one’s own preferences in the face of judgmental social norms, and figuring out how to behave ethically around sex without opting out of doing anything at all, and being okay with weirdness, etc.
I think it’s really important to mix sex and rationality. This need not necessarily be done on the front page, but it absolutely needs to be done somewhere. (And it is already being done in places like Ozy’s blog, of course.)
I’m getting to this discussion quite late and I don’t have that much useful stuff to add, but want to register that I had a very strong reaction to this:
“I think explicit sexuality is inherently anti-intellectual.”
This sentiment scares me, because I think healthy sexual cultures desperately need rationality, curiosity, intellectual inquiry, etc. There’s the “people should learn about how to have safe sex before they actually have sex” thing, but there’s also things like figuring out one’s own preferences in the face of judgmental social norms, and figuring out how to behave ethically around sex without opting out of doing anything at all, and being okay with weirdness, etc.
I think it’s really important to mix sex and rationality. This need not necessarily be done on the front page, but it absolutely needs to be done somewhere. (And it is already being done in places like Ozy’s blog, of course.)