There are all sorts of ways to approach sex. Being a sex educator I tend to take the most direct route (which, ironically, doesn’t always get me there the fastest). But I learn just as much from people who get to sex from a completely different angle.
With over 750 Guides, About.com is a great place to find people talking about sex from diverse and often unexpected perspectives. In this irregular series I’m going to point to my favorite examples of sex on About.com.
This week’s post comes to us from About.com’s Guide to Ancient/Classical History, N.S. Gill. Gill has helpfully adapted out a part of Aristophanes Speech on Love from the Symposium, which is of particular interest to anyone looking for a less biological, more philosophical and honestly magical understanding of human sexual and romantic attraction. So called “hard science” is great, for a great number of thing, but one thing it often lacks, at least in its presentation, is any element of opening up a conversation. What I love about this story by Aristophanes is how many different paths it directs us to choose from as we ask ourselves, why am I this way or that way, or why don’t I know which way I am at all.
N.S. Gill: Aristophanes Tells How We Came to Have Homosexual and Heterosexual Soul Mates
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