Re: [A-List] Khomeini on Sodomy

["Yoshie Furuhashi" <critical.montages@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 10/25/07, Macdonald Stainsby <mstainsby@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
> > <http://montages.blogspot.com/2007/09/khomeini-on-sodomy.html>
> > Tuesday, September 25, 2007
> > Khomeini on Sodomy
> >
> > Laws concerning same-sex sex are against certain sexual acts, not
> > against certain categories of persons, in Iran.1
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> That's because the laws are reflective of grotesque thoughts that say
> these people do NOT EXIST.

The idea of sexual orientations is culturally and historically
contingent.  The Japanese people enjoyed same-sex sex, especially
between older men and younger men, and such same-sex sex was
celebrated in premodern literature, in which no modern categories of
homosexuals, bisexuals, and heterosexuals could be found.  That's all
long before the rise of modern gay rights movements.  Homophobia in
Japan was an import from the West, which came as a byproduct of
psychiatry, psychology, and related sciences, which also propagated
the idea of sexual orientations.

If the Iranian people want to have more sexual rights and freedoms,
they can develop their own ideas by going back to their own past and
inventing new models of sexual rights and freedoms based upon them,
rather than importing the notions originally invented by bourgeois
culture in the capitalist West.
-- 
Yoshie