EDP 363 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Human Sexuality, Siri Hustvedt, Antioch College
16 Feb 2017
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Reading notes: a plea for eros, siri hustvedt. Eros=god of passion (arrow of love makes people fall into the first person they see) Objectification: both men and women are sexual objects. The antioch ruling: law enacted at antioch college which made every stage of a sexual encounter only legal by consent. (clearly a response to the chaos of courtship) Paradox: strangeness = erotic, mystery: the unknown and unfamiliar (enemies of eros: familiarity and the pedestrian realities of everyday life) Acts can be controlled, but not desire. Sexual feeling pops up, in spite of our politics. You can"t legislate desire ( desire is always between a subject and an object ) To pretend ambiguity doesn"t exist in sexual relations is just plain stupid . How easily the mood can be shattered. Yes we should have rules around sexuality but they are never going to completely encompass/censor sex.
