do my homework for me

[radfrac_archive_full]

Actually, this was not an assignment, just a passing suggestion, but it seemed like an interesting idea.

In Literary Theory, we've just read a provocative Leo Bersani essay from 1987: "Is the Rectum a Grave"?

Which, best essay title ever. The suggestion was that we take his opening statement to our friends and see what kind of debate it engenders.

So:

There is a big secret about sex: most people don't like it.

Discuss.

(Longer quote)

There is a big secret about sex: most people don't like it....people would probably answer the question as if they were being asked "Do you often feel the need to have sex?" and one of my aims will be to suggest why these are two wholly different questions....In saying that most people don't like sex, I'm not arguing... that the most rigidly moralistic dicta about sex hide smoldering volcanoes of repressed sexual desire. When you make this argument, you divide people into two camps, and at the same time you let it be known to which camp you belong....I'm interested in something... both camps have in common... an aversion that is not the same thing as a repression and can coexist quite comfortably with, say, the most enthusiastic endorsement of ppolysexuality with multiple sex partners.

-Leo Bersani, "Is the Rectum a Grave?" AIDS: Cultural Analysis/Cultural activism (Winter, 1987) pp. 197-9)

Good times.

{rf}