{"id":32157,"date":"2010-12-15T10:58:37","date_gmt":"2010-12-15T15:58:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=32157"},"modified":"2010-12-15T11:04:28","modified_gmt":"2010-12-15T16:04:28","slug":"worth-repeating-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/worth-repeating-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Worth repeating"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The word \u201cchoice\u201d appears frequently in debates about sexuality, as if our desires can exist only on the extreme ends of a continuum between purely biological inborn traits and frivolous choices. We believe this absolutist notion of biology vs. choice is a false dichotomy, and that the origins of our sexuality &#8212; like so many other things we consider an intrinsic part of who we are &#8212; need not be reduced to the purely biological in order to be given respect and validation. Regardless of how our sexual identities are constructed &#8212; whatever combination of \u201cnature\u201d and \u201cnurture\u201d might be responsible for forming our unique combinations of desires and preferences &#8212; we can think of our behavior in terms of active consent.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Angi Becker Stevens and Alex Upham<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.afreesociety.org\/critique-of-pure-relationships\/\">Critique of Pure Relationships: On Consent and Compulsory Monogamy<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The word \u201cchoice\u201d appears frequently in debates about sexuality, as if our desires can exist only on the extreme ends of a continuum between purely biological inborn traits and frivolous choices. We believe this absolutist notion of biology vs. choice is a false dichotomy, and that the origins of our sexuality &#8212; like so many &#8230; <a title=\"Worth repeating\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/worth-repeating-8\/\" aria-label=\"More on Worth repeating\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32157"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}