So to contextualize my question I'd name queer theory, of which I have been thinking about non-stop lately, since I find really problematic the idea of an assimilationist gay identity, which adheres to heterosexual values, that so much have damaged the alterity of gayness, and have helped in advancing its institutionalization.
This has also made me realise that the idea of identity with all is accompanying signifiers, is essential to current channels of desire, and they can potentially be mapped out.
Does-sexual-pleasure have a gender?
Today I am reading on Foucault, power, discipline, security and controlled environments, so can't delve into this further. But I'd like anyone reading this to consider this question thoroughly, since you can think of pleasure as just pure stimulation of tissue and organs, you would be missing the cultural significance of signs involved in say, flirting or intercourse. Which I also think many times are more a mirror of power structures rather than constructs for the exploration of forms of relating.
I am not saying people don't find pleasure in performing these by adopting roles and adopting the signs in relation to these, my point is that these are constructed, assimilated and performed, and hence they have an underlying logic or structure (different to logic since their shape might be beyond any Reason).
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