Originally posted by Vladamir no1Androgyny is separate from sexual orientation. It can either be physiological, or it can be a matter of gender identity.
Has the West created a fallacy, that hetrosexuality is normative? Are we in reality naturally androgenous?
Edit: By the way, what is this doing in the Spirituality Forum?
Originally posted by NordlysBiologically many would agree that we are an adrogenous species....gender is a matter of identity and that is enforced through categories of society not through natural selection....As I asked earlier are we androgenous is hetrosexuality part a social normativity?
Androgyny is separate from sexual orientation. It can either be physiological, or it can be a matter of gender identity.
Originally posted by NordlysWhy would you ask that, you don't think sex has anything to do with
Androgyny is separate from sexual orientation. It can either be physiological, or it can be a matter of gender identity.
Edit: By the way, what is this doing in the Spirituality Forum?
man's spiritual side?
Kelly
Originally posted by KellyJayI have never made that connection. Do you think it does? But even if it does, Vladimir's question didn't seem to be about a possible spiritual aspect of sex. There are many things I can think of which can have a spiritual component, for example music or the aurora borealis, both of which I have posted about here in a spiritual context. But I wouldn't discuss music or the aurora here if I were not specifically referring to the spiritual aspect of it.
Why would you ask that, you don't think sex has anything to do with
man's spiritual side?
Kelly
I would contend that "life" has something to do with spirituality (or spirituality has something to do with life). I think we obsess about the sexual aspect due to the rather black and white nature ot it, in the sense of what is normative. This, I predicate upon the notion that the masses equate normative with spiritual (in the most general sense, non denominational).
Originally posted by NordlysThe only way that sex is spiritual is in the sense of tantric sex or 'true' lovemaking...
I have never made that connection. Do you think it does? But even if it does, Vladimir's question didn't seem to be about a possible spiritual aspect of sex. There are many things I can think of which can have a spiritual component, for example music or the aurora borealis, both of which I have posted about here in a spiritual context. But I wouldn't discuss music or the aurora here if I were not specifically referring to the spiritual aspect of it.
and no Nordlys I won't show you, you got to stop asking me that 😉