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To: alt.philosophy.taoism From: shc103@york.ac.uk (SH Carter) Subject: Sex, Sexism, Tao and Taoism Date: 6 Feb 1996 13:49:30 GMT (Re-posted with a better Subject heading) SH Carter (shc103@york.ac.uk) wrote: : Where does Sex fit into all of this? : Could it be that it is a subject that is even more complicated than the : whole of Taoism, so the great scholars swept it under the carpet hoping : nobody would notice? : If Taoists are supposed to eschew all that sort of thing, as are most : other philosophies, why haven't all the Taoists died long ago? : It may be that I've just not read enough, as my method for learning : things tends to be towards the intuitive and away from the academic. : There are hexagrams that address sexual/marital issues (Coming to meet, : and that one where the masculine and feminine are out of position and at : odds with each other: 'inauspicious') but how do these translate into : relationships in the more egalitarian 'modern' west? My intuition tells : me that the hexagrams are telling me that a Woman's place _is_ in the : home, but this is not an acceptable stance in modern Britain. : Yours, puzzled, but stubbornly seeking answers, -- # Steve Carter, shc103@york.ac.uk, http://www.york.ac.uk/~shc103 # ... nope, can't think of anything at all to go here.
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