Re: the next wedge issue

[joanna bujes <jbujes@xxxxxxxxx>]

Jurriaan Bendien wrote:

> I am always perplexed by the combination of an obsessive preoccupation of
> Americans with sexual relations, and a puritan christianist morality which
> stigmatises a frank and open discussion about it, which seems to lead to the
> idea that expressing or using sexual imagery is okay, if it markets or sells
> a product, but not if you are actually consciously communicating with
> somebody in public space. You can sort of see how the whole twisted culture
> fits together, but it's perplexing anyhow.  In Holland, same sex marriage
> has been legal for some time, but caused no earthshaking controversy.
> Sometimes I have wished I was gay, because it would solve some problems of
> life, but it's an illusion really.
Americans are the most over-stimulated and under-gratified people in the
world. If you think about it, this is not a contradiction at all; the
one requires the other -- to ensure compulsive behavior...like shopping.

More interesting to me is the obsessive labeling. Why does it matter
that one is homosexual, heterosexual, bisexual, etc. What is any of this
about?

> joanna