Sexual Evolution; a Theory in progress
Nov. 19th, 2006 11:01 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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fluffyllama the other day, stemming from John Barrowman's use of the 'why would someone choose to be gay' comment on Jonathan Ross. John Barrowman, for those who might not know, currently plays an omnisexual human from the 51st century. He is explained by the Doctor to Rose in series one that by the 51st century people had moved past the whole 'categories thing' and, with so many actual species to choose from, the gender of your partner was not an issue. In Torchwood, John Barrowman's Doctor Who spin-off, he says to someone 'you people and your quaint little categories'.
So this got me thinking about the whole sexual orientation thing. If I understand Kinsey correctly, everyone has a little bit of both in them; some people are just higher on the scale than others. So basically, everyone has the potential to be at least bi-sexual.
Now bear with me, because I'm still working this out in my head.
The sex drive at a primal level is to procreate, but we humans long ago evolved past that, and now sex is, or should be, about love and intimacy. Maybe we can evolve now to where we can stretch our boundaries of what love is, and love someone fully, regardless of gender, because we have respect and trust and understanding of that person.
This isn't to say everyone will be running around 'engaging'* each other with no thoughts of monogamy. It's the opposite, really. You meet someone, you connect, you find joy and respect with each other, you fall in love, you join together, and you live happily ever after, and the pronouns of that particular story won't have to matter.
*Brave New World's version of having sex. At least in the movie version
fluffyllama the other day, stemming from John Barrowman's use of the 'why would someone choose to be gay' comment on Jonathan Ross. John Barrowman, for those who might not know, currently plays an omnisexual human from the 51st century. He is explained by the Doctor to Rose in series one that by the 51st century people had moved past the whole 'categories thing' and, with so many actual species to choose from, the gender of your partner was not an issue. In Torchwood, John Barrowman's Doctor Who spin-off, he says to someone 'you people and your quaint little categories'. So this got me thinking about the whole sexual orientation thing. If I understand Kinsey correctly, everyone has a little bit of both in them; some people are just higher on the scale than others. So basically, everyone has the potential to be at least bi-sexual.
Now bear with me, because I'm still working this out in my head.
The sex drive at a primal level is to procreate, but we humans long ago evolved past that, and now sex is, or should be, about love and intimacy. Maybe we can evolve now to where we can stretch our boundaries of what love is, and love someone fully, regardless of gender, because we have respect and trust and understanding of that person.
This isn't to say everyone will be running around 'engaging'* each other with no thoughts of monogamy. It's the opposite, really. You meet someone, you connect, you find joy and respect with each other, you fall in love, you join together, and you live happily ever after, and the pronouns of that particular story won't have to matter.
*Brave New World's version of having sex. At least in the movie version