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Sex researchers predict the future (Mega Barf Alert!)
Bay Area Reporter (San Francisco) ^ | 20 April 2006 | Liz Highleyman

Posted on 04/20/2006 11:57:34 AM PDT by DBeers

More than 100 leading sex researchers and students from a broad range of disciplines gathered in Santa Fe, New Mexico in late March for "States of Sexuality," a three-day summit held to commemorate the 10th anniversary of Sexuality Research Fellowship Program.

The program, sponsored by the Social Science Research Council and funded in part by the Ford Foundation, has provided support for more than 200 fellows and claims to have "cultivated new generations of scholars who address the complex nature of human sexuality and make contributions to a more thorough understanding of human sexuality."

A highlight of the meeting was a plenary panel on March 31 looking at the future of the sex research field. During a conference call with reporters, four prominent researchers "gazed into the crystal ball" to project what sex research would look like in the year 2016.

"The need for sexuality studies will become even more urgent," predicted George Chauncey, director of the Lesbian and Gay Studies Project at the University of Chicago.

"We have seen the kind of role scholarship can play in informing judges and other public policymakers," he said, noting his own involvement as a historical expert in recent U.S. Supreme Court cases including Romer v. Evans (Colorado's Amendment 2) and Lawrence v. Texas. "The court cases show the degree to which the Christian right depends on ignorance of the history of gay and lesbian lives and experiences."

Chauncey added that the increased visibility of transgender issues has been "a striking development in the past 10 years," along with "young peoples growing sense that they can transform their gender."

Pepper Schwartz, a professor of sociology at the University of Washington who has written numerous books including Everything You Know About Love and Sex is Wrong, agreed that notions of gender and sexuality had become more fluid. "There's been an extraordinary change among the youth of this country," she said. "They are no longer tied to sexual identity."

But, she wondered, is this a fad? Will young people desire more labels as they grow older? Even if so, she suggested, "It's good to have a nice flexible beginning. There's no need to fear that there will be no more sexual identities – some people will always want these. There always will be a politics of identity, but it might have a little more leeway, and I think that's a good thing."

Schwartz foresees more study of intimate relationships, both homosexual and heterosexual. Other issues she thinks will occupy sex researchers in the coming years include more global understandings of sexuality, changing norms of monogamy, and the sex lives of the aging "baby boom" generation.

Kinsey Institute director Julia Heiman added a few more themes for the future: pharmaceutical interventions beyond Viagra; the effects of environmental toxins on anatomy, physiology, and fertility; tolerance for sexual violence in a nation at war; and the impact of new technology – such as the potential ability to create virtual partners in cyberspace – on in-person relationships.

All four panelists agreed that the current cultural debates about issues related to sex and sexuality will not abate anytime soon.

"A religious vision of sexuality arose, like a phoenix rising from the ashes," in reaction to the changes of the 1970s, said John Gagnon, professor emeritus at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. "My sense is that we are engaged in a struggle for what kind of place the U.S. is going to be in terms of sex, gender, and reproductive rights. The cutting edge of the religious movement has a vision of what a good America is. This is opposed by many other people who see it as a place of choice and diversity ... neither side is going to give up."

Chauncey added that the current debates over same-sex marriage are only the most recent in a series of struggles prompted by broad social transformations including feminism, gay rights, and the HIV/AIDS epidemic. He said he hoped researchers would devote "more attention to religious and faith-based understandings of sexuality," since this is "one area where we see fundamental conflicts playing out in society."

But in terms of LGBT issues, he said, "I am fairly optimistic. A new generation is growing up that has seen gay people treated with the respect and dignity they deserve. Polls show people ages 18-30 are four times more likely to support gay marriage than their grandparents. This is why the right is working so vociferously, trying to subvert the democratic process by shutting down debate."

"There are strong lobbies [on both sides] trying to determine what people's sex lives will look like," Schwarz concurred. "Sex researchers really want to be on the side of information, individual choices, and sex as a positive aspect of people's lives."


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; Philosophy; US: California; US: Colorado; US: New Mexico; US: Texas
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1 posted on 04/20/2006 11:57:37 AM PDT by DBeers
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2 posted on 04/20/2006 11:59:19 AM PDT by martin_fierro (I got squirrelly nieces & nephews)
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"We have seen the kind of role scholarship can play in informing judges and other public policymakers," he said, noting his own involvement as a historical expert in recent U.S. Supreme Court cases including Romer v. Evans (Colorado's Amendment 2) and Lawrence v. Texas. "The court cases show the degree to which the Christian right depends on ignorance of the history of gay and lesbian lives and experiences."

Scholarship? More like junk science premised propaganda financed by the Ford Foundation!

Another one for the BIZARRO file... ROTFLMAO

3 posted on 04/20/2006 12:00:24 PM PDT by DBeers (†)
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To: DBeers

"hey babe-ee I'm a sex researcher"


4 posted on 04/20/2006 12:04:36 PM PDT by rageaholic
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To: DBeers
"The need for sexuality studies will become even more urgent," predicted George Chauncey, director of the Lesbian and Gay Studies Project at the University of Chicago.

This is the ultimate irony. Sexuality and parenthood are inextricably linked; two sides of a single coin.
For those who, by definition, can never be parents in the normal natural sense, for them to discuss "sexuality" is, well... mind-boggling.

Tolerance is one thing, and was the only goal early on for the deviants.
For them to continue pretending that they are as normal as heterosexuals, the other 97% of human beings is... well, also mind-boggling. I suppose we can no longer assume we can ignore them and they will go away? The "muslims" of human sexuality?

5 posted on 04/20/2006 12:13:44 PM PDT by Publius6961 (Multiculturalism is the white flag of a dying country)
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To: DBeers
But, she wondered, is this a fad?

Yes. Today, teenagers use the words "gay/homosexual/fagot" to represent things that are weird, ugly, distasteful, or dysfunctional. If you call a fellow student "gay", you'll pay for it. It's one of the worst thing you can call them.

There are a few social losers who refer to themselves as "gay" occupying space in the schools who think being queer is still cool, but their days are numbered. They're quickly becoming freaks in the eyes of normal school kids.

This is a good thing, and parents have to keep working toward it until "gay" is as bad as smoking. Both are just as deadly, even though one destroys from the top and the other through the bottom.

6 posted on 04/20/2006 12:13:59 PM PDT by concerned about politics ("Get thee behind me, Liberal.")
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To: rageaholic

Sheesh.............How in the Sam Hill did our ancestors ever survive and have children without sex researches telling them what to do?


How did our ancestors figure out the mysteries of sex? How did they figure out how to make it all work? They must have since we were all conceived and born. They did figure things out.


7 posted on 04/20/2006 12:14:59 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: DBeers
"The need for sexuality studies will become even more urgent,"

It's either butt covering chastity belts for kids or school choice. Choose thou.

8 posted on 04/20/2006 12:18:14 PM PDT by concerned about politics ("Get thee behind me, Liberal.")
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To: DBeers
"young peoples growing sense that they can transform their gender."

No, they cannot transform their gender.
They might be able to transform their sense of gender but not their gender.

9 posted on 04/20/2006 12:22:55 PM PDT by Just another Joe (Warning: FReeping can be addictive and helpful to your mental health)
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To: DBeers

The homosexuals will ALWAYS be trying to indoctrinate the children, because adults won't stand for it
Where there's innocent kids, you'll find homosexuals.


10 posted on 04/20/2006 12:25:50 PM PDT by concerned about politics ("Get thee behind me, Liberal.")
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To: martin_fierro

Hence the expression: Prick up your ears.


11 posted on 04/20/2006 12:27:59 PM PDT by andy58-in-nh
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To: cjshapi

A "sexy" ping.


12 posted on 04/20/2006 12:30:03 PM PDT by Junior (Identical fecal matter, alternate diurnal period)
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To: Junior

I guess you can get funding for anything these days!


13 posted on 04/20/2006 12:31:27 PM PDT by cjshapi
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To: concerned about politics
Where there's innocent kids, you'll find homosexuals

There are FAR more heterosexual child molesters than otherwise, so one could easily say "Where there's innocent kids, you'll find heterosexuals."

Your logic.

14 posted on 04/20/2006 12:32:29 PM PDT by Tokra (I think I'll retire to Bedlam.)
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To: cjshapi

I'd love to be a "sex researcher." Can you just imagine the lab work?


15 posted on 04/20/2006 12:33:15 PM PDT by Junior (Identical fecal matter, alternate diurnal period)
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To: DBeers
"gazed into the crystal ball"

I wonder which NAMBLA member it belonged to.

16 posted on 04/20/2006 12:33:38 PM PDT by concerned about politics ("Get thee behind me, Liberal.")
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To: DBeers
Now that Gays have been normalized in all areas of public policy or they will turn their attention on the Children. The ground work is well underway. Example: Female school teachers having sex with adolescent boys is the first step in normalizing even younger and all sexual options. You can listen to any "conservative" radio talk show and hear plenty of "normal" and "respectable" "conservatives" justify a violation of authority by these teachers. The major objection to be found is whether the teacher is ugly or not.

There was a time when a College Professor would be canned for dating a student even if the student was older than the instructor. In that long forgotten time they understood the temptation for abuse and corruption such things fostered. The other students trust in the Professors grading of his or her students would be undermined. Today a hotty can do so to under age children and many "conservatives" claim there is no harm.

Is there any wonder what is next?
17 posted on 04/20/2006 12:35:36 PM PDT by iluvlucy (swim the Tiber, the water is fine)
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To: martin_fierro
Just another reason for me to stay away from Santa Fe. Between the rampant gay agenda and its sense of art...i.e.

Just don't go there.

18 posted on 04/20/2006 12:36:28 PM PDT by CougarGA7 (There are no trophies for winning wars. Only consequences for losing them.)
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To: Tokra
There are FAR more heterosexual child molesters than otherwise, so one could easily say "Where there's innocent kids, you'll find heterosexuals."

I disagree. Not only are the homosexuals where the children are, but they're demanding the legal right to easy access to them - in the name of tolerance , of course. Heterosexuals aren't out there waving flags are screamimg "let us in" like the homosexuals. The queers are blatant about their agenda.

19 posted on 04/20/2006 12:37:07 PM PDT by concerned about politics ("Get thee behind me, Liberal.")
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To: Just another Joe
Gender applies to words not people. These people are stupid on many levels
20 posted on 04/20/2006 12:37:21 PM PDT by iluvlucy (swim the Tiber, the water is fine)
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