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...access to the rights and privileges of citizenship in concrete ways as well, usually in conjunction with notions of sex difference. If we mean “sex” as sexual orientation and/or erotic desire, we should consider how dominant understandings of what constitutes “natural?? as opposed to “unnatural” sex frame one’s rights to privacy and free expression...
...graduation, I feel like much of my world is simply going to be uprooted and transplanted to New York City after June 4. NYC is the Mecca of the social and economic lives of Harvard students in the real world: Not only is it perceived as being the natural??often default—next stop in the lives of the young graduates of elite colleges, but New York’s glossiness also indicates a sort of ultimate achievement of the cosmopolitan refinement and worldliness that Harvard students work so hard to cultivate and realize...
...Pasquale’s belief that nudity is “natural?? may have already garnered some followers...
Perhaps The Crimson Staff missed her central point about pornography being part of the cultural construction of sexuality. MacKinnon directly attacked any assumption that human sexuality springs from some “natural?? or non-social wellspring. MacKinnon stated categorically that sexual desire (on the part of both men and women) is social, socialized, and socially-constructed—and further went on to argue that much of it is deeply influenced by pornography. The speaker made no argument against “free choice.” She did, however, claim that desire?...
...case, a collection of traits established by the unguided processes of evolution to suit small, hunter-gatherer societies—limit our progress today? Just because something is natural doesn’t make it more or less moral—Huntington’s disease is natural??and if we let such fears dictate our actions we’d be little better off than cavemen. Nature doesn’t provide us with an objective standard for evaluating what a human should be like, other than individuals’ personal criteria for healthiness and happiness. Using...