"Sex Is Politics" ( Gore Vidal )

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"Gore Vidal, in the essay "Sex is Politics," from his book The Second American Revolution, argues that sex ultimately boils down to politics. While it is certainly true that much of sex is politics, there are some forms of sex and sexuality that are not political at all. Vidal fails to recognize this.

When Vidal argues that "sex is politics," he means that politicians use sexual issues and sexual "hot buttons" (153) as a means to control the behavior of the people. Vidal is arguing that the order of the society and the functioning and growth of the economy depend on a certain set of behaviors from the people. That behavior is based on a patriarchal, heterosexual, child-bearing, family-based system which produces obedient hard-working citizens who will be less likely to act in a way which will threaten the society or the economy or their own family life..."

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