Interesting and challenging paper I had not read before, published in 1996 by Francisco Valdes. A couple quotes:Judeo-Christian leaders, like their Greco-Roman counterparts, continued this patriarchal construction and regulation of sex, gender, and sexuality as key tools for cultural organization, but they introduced a new overriding objective: abstinence. This objective, reflective of Christianity's socio-sexual asceticism, recognized only one potential exception: procreational sexual activity in the context of marriage. Over time, this emphasis on sexual renunciation, and its toleration only of marital procreational sexuality, reversed the Greek ideal of non-procreational sexual intimacy: Under Christian sex/gender ideology, non-procreational sensuality was no longer sublime, it was "sin." This reversal altered the parameters of "correct" sexual personality and interaction. A PDF of the paper is linked below. Footnote 9 mentions a book by Valdes described as "forthcoming 1996." A subsequent footnote says this book was to include "a more detailed discussion of Roman, Christian, and other eras leading up to the Euro-American status quo." I have not been able to confirm that this book was ever published. hugzu ;-p [@nonymouse] [Guardster] [Proxify] [Anonymisierungsdienst] |