http://karenrayne.com/2010/04/15/finding-your-sexual-identity/ Mon, 21 May 2012 19:00:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 http://karenrayne.com/2010/04/15/finding-your-sexual-identity/comment-page-1/#comment-5495 Robert Fri, 16 Apr 2010 01:46:10 +0000 http://karenrayne.com/?p=822#comment-5495 Good luck DSD. Hopefully your high school students will be open to some good discussion. I keep hoping that with each generation we make a little more progress. Good luck DSD. Hopefully your high school students will be open to some good discussion. I keep hoping that with each generation we make a little more progress.

]]> http://karenrayne.com/2010/04/15/finding-your-sexual-identity/comment-page-1/#comment-5491 DairyStateDad Thu, 15 Apr 2010 22:35:36 +0000 http://karenrayne.com/?p=822#comment-5491 Hear, Hear... And we should not underestimate how foreign this notion of "sexual identity" -- and its plasticity -- is to the mainstream culture, which still largely buys into "all guys are one way" and "all girls are another way" and each of those "ways" tends to be fairly limited, constrained, and vanilla. And if a particular person is not vanilla, they're totally weird and probably creepy or sick. As I contemplate getting ready to teach another group of Sr. Hi OWL students next year, I think getting across to them the wide range of what it means to be a sexual person, of any gender and any orientation, may be the most challenging assignment of all... Hear, Hear… And we should not underestimate how foreign this notion of “sexual identity” — and its plasticity — is to the mainstream culture, which still largely buys into “all guys are one way” and “all girls are another way” and each of those “ways” tends to be fairly limited, constrained, and vanilla. And if a particular person is not vanilla, they’re totally weird and probably creepy or sick. As I contemplate getting ready to teach another group of Sr. Hi OWL students next year, I think getting across to them the wide range of what it means to be a sexual person, of any gender and any orientation, may be the most challenging assignment of all…

]]> http://karenrayne.com/2010/04/15/finding-your-sexual-identity/comment-page-1/#comment-5490 Robert Thu, 15 Apr 2010 17:59:19 +0000 http://karenrayne.com/?p=822#comment-5490 I can see how the idea of evolving sexual identity could be both incredibly liberating and unnervingly disconcerting. But on the whole I think people could benefit from thinking of sexual identity not as a statement, but more as a conversation - one you are having with yourself, your partners and the world. I can see how the idea of evolving sexual identity could be both incredibly liberating and unnervingly disconcerting. But on the whole I think people could benefit from thinking of sexual identity not as a statement, but more as a conversation - one you are having with yourself, your partners and the world.

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