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This 3 page paper discusses the ideas of sexual politics and culture as expressed in the essay by Gayle Rubin, "Thinking Sex". Bibliography lists 1 source.
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their sexuality. She argues that while their persecution is regrettable, that it is also necessary in order for the current social and political systems to remain intact and functioning. But
whom, specifically, is she pointing a finger toward? Who is this special population, then and now, and can one honestly say that sexuality is political? Rubin illustrates that there
is an intolerance by society for those groups which fall outside of the average in sexual terms. For example, lesbian and homosexual relationships are still regarded with distain and suspicion.
One has to agree that this is more or less a hold over from the Victorian Era where such notions of sexuality were oppressed and repressed so as to give
more leverage to the Church at the time. Controlling one of the strongest of drives in the human being, the Church, and later the government, realized great strength to shape
the economy and the culture. This, in part, was also why in the fifties and sixties there was such a backlash against
homosexuals. During the Victorian Era, women were the oppressed group, but in todays culture, this has shifted toward the homosexual. During the fifties and sixties one saw this shift occurring
as people became increasingly hostile toward homosexuals. There were laws enacted which made homosexual acts between consenting adults, illegal. Thus, Rubin
correctly and aptly states that sexuality has its own set of political dynamics. As such, then, sexuality has its own forms of oppression. Many of the sexual mores and attitudes
which exist in todays society are still reflective of the nineteenth century. Many of these presumptions about sexuality have been formulated based on the outmoded culture of the nineteenth
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