the fragile surface tension of heterosexual groups?
October 29, 2014 9:33 PM   Subscribe

Imagine a group of hetero people of the same gender. That is actually an amazing social structure, if it were mathematically perfect, because no other arrangement can guarantee that noone would be potentially romantically interested in anyone else. Can you source me any research that's observed this fact, be it gender theory or evolutionary biology?

It seems more than a coincidence that heterosexual social structures and sexual denial go so axiomatically together.

An obvious idea (in the sense that it comes to mind-- I don't actually believe it) is that maybe armies learned to harness repressed sexual energy, and it was evolutionarily advantageous to form these same-sex homophobic groups since they fought better because of it. But that brings up questions about armies in history, and whether they have always been straight and hetero.

Another line of thought is that mathematical perfection and perfect straightness have a lot in common. I'm thinking of Luce Irigaray writing about the rigidity of physics.

Any books or authors that come to mind when I mention these thoughts would be useful. Thanks!
posted by neil pierce to Science & Nature

This post was deleted for the following reason: This isn't really a question and doesn't make too much sense, maybe rewrite/try again next week? -- mathowie

 
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