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...wrongfulness of gay sex is merely its "self-disintegrity:" the purported failure to act in a way that is consistent with a desire for the real goods that stable homosexual couples may share in common, goods such as friendship and mutual helping. Real goods can be embodied in homosexual friendships, but sex only distracts from them. When sex is chosen it is chosen as a source of "subjective satisfactions" through the "use [and] instrumentalization of each other's bodies...
...that infertility is a condition, not a choice against the good of procreation and new life. But these natural lawyers allow that homosexuality is also an unchosen condition, so what's the difference? If infertile heterosexual partners have sex, it is for pleasure and to express their love, or friendship, or some other shared good...
...Merrill's prose, unfortunately, often sounds like this: "Yet I couldn't help noticing, alone with Freddy at his visit's end, how much more freely my tongue wagged and my mind worked than they did with Claude. It wasn't that I'd made the wrong choice. Friendship's chattering stream simply came as a relief from the uncharted water of love, though it was to these that I'd committed myself...
Adomanis insists that the group stays together because of the friendship and group spirit shared by the members. "We get the job done and have a great time...We're more open, so people are more willing to commit time. People don't mind giving up a Thursday or Friday night. It doesn't feel like work...
...novels she proceeded to write constitute provisional and consummately artful answers to these questions. Sula (1973) examines the stormy friendship of two black women and the opposing imperatives to obey or to rebel against the mores of their beleaguered community. Song of Solomon (1977), her only novel with a male protagonist, proved a critical and commercial breakthrough for Morrison; the phantasmagoric saga of a black man in mystical pursuit of his past won the author rapturous praise and a greatly enlarged circle of readers...