Are Sexuality Distinctions Artificial Constructs of Culture?
Yes
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No
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I find the article interesting, and I don't doubt the recent history it shares is correct. But I think the ancient history of procreation and marriage make it really hard to win the argument that no one was "heterosexual" until the word itself starting getting used in print at the modern times referenced in the article. What I indeed DO buy is that the modern angst over 33 kinds of gender and whom uses what bathroom and whom can sleep with whom is a drummed up hysteria based on little actual importance. Just let people be people. Side: No
Biology drives sexuality. The distinctions, as all distinctions are, are humanly applied categorizations. But in this case, they are applied categorizations of natural phenomena. As any gay or straight or bisexual man or woman will tell you: sexual attraction is an urge, a feeling, not a choice. That's not artificial, anymore than the need to take a piss is artificial. Side: No
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