PHIL 1550 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Human Male Sexuality, Thought Experiment
6 Apr 2015
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Illocutionary actions with words; speech acts = produce concrete effects. According to greek mind male sexuality was active. What was feminine was passive reception of semen, receiver not producer. It is not a lack of penis, it is a vagina greeks did not understand sexuality of women. By entering boy [as a man] you are feminising the boy [making them the woman, or receiver]. We talk about it in the way: a man fucks a women. We still think feminine sexuality is passive and male is dominant. Point of view of vagina/ women [anatomical way of speaking]: the vagina invaginates the penis [thought experiment] instead of penis fucking vagina. Culture prevents us from changing this speech from fucking to invaginating. Thesis: what we do with language constraints what we do with our bodies. Men getting raped by women, this is not language that we can interpret as a negative act with out bodies.
