Should/Can Sex be Equally Distributed?

Our choice of sexual partners is a construct. It is made up of our cultural expectations, personal and society-level, of family pressure, of race policies, of race representations...actually, once you start thinking about it, the list of the criteria gets even longer. Never shorter.

Amia Srinivasan collected a couple of very important essays raising fundamental questions about the genesis and the basis of the politics of desire. The Right to Sex raises a couple of very important aspects, discussed in separate essays, all placing sex in the frame of a political phenomenon, framed by decisions fuelled by power - from male supremacy to issues defining the ´f*ckability´ based on very narrow, ethnically-oriented criteria. Although the perspective is mostly philosophical, I appreciated the realism of the approach, which takes into consideration the great extent of political involvement in defining private choices like sex.

Sex turns to be a very explosive political issue though. Being refused the right to sex, for various considerations - physical, mental health, racial - the so-called incels - involuntary celibate, because no one likes them - can fuel a wider frustration that may, in the end, combined with other elements like joblessness, a dangerous case for isolated or mass attacks. 

In a philosophical vein, the essays raise many questions but elegantly refuse to take a stance or another. But sometimes, the questions are enough to play the role of a conclusion. My mind-challenging essay for me is where the sex policies in universities are discussed because putting a certain mental habit into question is a strong statement in itself. 

Probably, a ´redistribution of sex´ is as utopic as a fair redistribution of wealth. However, being aware of what stays behind our body and sex choices it a deconstructivistic step towards eventually looking for alternatives. From the gnoseological point of view it is a very useful philosophical approach that, at least for me, opened my mind a lot of more concepts and approaches I hope to be able to further explore through other essays and further reading.