sex

The Sexuality and Consciousness Young Adult Conference began in a mood of shy discretion as we all wondered what this weekend would be about. What does Anthroposophy have to say about sexuality, or sex for that matter? Why do we even have masculine and feminine polarities? What are we to understand by the signs of the times?
Lisa Romero, Anthroposophical healthcare practitioner and teacher, guided us on our way; we plucked up our courage and set out with our questions. We realized it is important to distinguish between the terms: “man and women,” that which results from our biology, and the feminine and masculine principles, which are the creative within those bodies. With humor and sincerity, Lisa led us through the phenomena we experience in the intimate interplay between men and women. Read more »

In the July-August 2004 issue of The Gay & Lesbian Review  (Vol. XI, Number 4), Lewis Gannet’s essay, "C.A. Tripp, Sexual Emancipator," provides an insight into the role of the gay identity in the emergence of individualized sexuality, or sexual revolution.  He suggests that Tripp’s book, The Homosexual Matrix, published in 1975, “was the first work to explain in cogent psychological terms why homosexuality is not a developmental failure to achieve heterosexuality,” that is, not a mental illness, as it was categorized at the time. Gannet explains that in Matrix Tripp rejected the division of men into normal or regular (heterosexual) and abnormal or impaired (homosexual). According to Gannet, Tripp argues that “gays and straight people develop their sexual orientation in exactly the same way. In other words, [homosexuals] express a rational and valid sexual development...[that] is an integral and natural component of human sexuality.” Read more »

Sexuality has many meanings, ranging from across those connected with all of our personal thoughts, fantasies, memories or desires associated with “having sex” to the literal merging of male and female germ cells. Clearly, sexuality is a word that means a lot to us. Compared to the amount of time we dedicate every day to our jobs, to childcare or to recreation, the time that we actually spend having sex is relatively short. Still, few days pass in which we do not have thoughts, fantasies, feelings or wishes in which sex plays the central role. Sexuality pervades deep enough into our existence that looking closely at the question: “What does sexuality mean to me and what do I want to do with it?” is justified.
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