Yashasvee Kumar Week 4

Thinking Sex: Notes for a Radical Theory of the Politics of Sexuality Gayle S. Rubin 

Rubin believes that when there are more critical problems like wars, racism, famine, etc. is the precise timing of an eventual eruption of unthinkable destruction where people are likely to become more dangerously crazy about sexuality. She goes ahead and converses about how sexual behavior becomes a pathogen of instigating social anxieties, religious disputes over the conduct of eroticism.

Rubin seems to criticize and compare the spheres that the young ones (minor) are influenced to, where young ones can and are easily influenced to graphic violence but are forbidden to watch books, movies, television in which sexual encounters are graphically represented. She sounds critical of the system where a parent is denied contact with their own children when their livelihood is comprised of unconventional sexual activities. It has been severe in the case of those related to the teaching profession where they are merely rusticated because their unconventional lifestyle became known to school officials.

Rubin also seems to be appalled by harsh sex laws and gives an example of a kiss on a passionate partner’s genitalia which has severe punishment in several states and how consensual but illicit sex is punished in the same sphere, harsher than rape, battery or assault.