Note: This piece was published before rs21 was established as an independent organisation in January 2014. rs21 was founded by a group of people who had been in the opposition within the SWP and who left in response to its persistent mishandling of rape and sexual harassment allegations against a leading member.
A response to John Molyneux on sexuality
Colin Wilson •Colin Wilson’s reply to John Molyneux’s views on sexuality and human nature has been published on the ISJ website.
John argues against ideas which most socialists have accepted for some 20 years. My pamphlet Socialists and Gay Liberation, published in the mid-1990s, states that “sexuality changes through history, and between different societies”. The ISJ article LGBT Politics and Sexual Liberation, from 2007, claims that “sexuality is not a biological essence, unchanging through history… it is ‘socially constructed’.” John’s rejection of social construction as a “concession to bourgeois ideology” finds a problem where one was never detected before.
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See our earlier post for previous contributions to debate on this topic.
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