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From: turpin@cs.utexas.EDU (Russell Turpin)
Newsgroups: soc.feminism
Subject: Re: Gender?  Do we need it?
Summary: Sex?  Do we need it?
Message-ID: <7256@cs.utexas.edu>
Date: 29 Nov 89 19:59:02 GMT
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In article <1989Nov25.080406.19293@agate.berkeley.edu>, era1987@violet.Berkeley.EDU writes:
> ...  If two people
> are compatible and attracted to each other, I'm sure they'll reveal
> their biological status to each other so as to find out if intercourse
> might involve reproductive possibilities. ...

I find the above statement somewhat murky.  Is Mark implying that
unless one is interested in procreation, other people's sex (not
gender) shouldn't matter in personal relationships?  If so, how far is
this from relegating the (legitimate) function of sex to only
procreation?

Let me turn these questions around.  Very few of us are bisexual.
Most people have greater erotic desire for one sex than the other.
While some of this preference may have to do with gender roles, some
of it clearly does not.  Does the fact that other people's sex
influences one's attraction conflict with abandoning gender-roles?

Russell


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