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as pornography, both operate as a sort of lightning rod designed to take the
sexual undercurrents of delight and desire that do, actually, exist in non sexual
frameworks of naked demeanor -- the pleasure of gazing and the desire to know,
the joy of showing and the want to be seen. For contemporary postmodern
western culture, sex and sexuality have become signicant themes in advertisements,
art, entertainment and other frames such that sexuality appears an outside force,
roller-coastering or bulldozing its way through formerly 'shielded' spaces, and
not only public ones. The 'protected' sites of nakedness -- kids bathing,
Locker room showers -- are likewise 'crashed through' and sexualized.
If it is useful to battle the prohibition on nakedness that results from the
(renewed) fall of nakedness into sexuality -- and likely it's -- then it is not
done by taking the place of nudists, naturalists and naked activists in try-
ing to retrieve a space or framework for non sexual nakedness, for the instability of
the myth of the shut framework or context is productive, in the sense that it opens
up all kinds of chances for contingent, continuous reconsidering of subjectivity,
bodies, attributes, resources, statuses and individualities. Nor is it useful to fete,
or even necessarily recommend the failure of the contextual frames per se. Instead,
I suggest it'd be productive to contemplate a reguring of sexuality altogether.
If
nakedness can be, and is, collapsed with sexuality, then it's by virtue of the
As Freudian, Marxist-Freudian and
Marxist-feminist scholars have frequently attested, sexuality in modernity is fooled
104--5). In post structuralist queer theoretical terms, the sexual issue is a

performative delusion of a (genitally sexed) body, gendered culturally and job-
ing a sexual desire towards another body labelled reverse by virtue of its
dichotomously differentiated genitals -- a regime carried on by the 'heterosexual
matrix', and where homosexuality becomes the 'evidence' of heterosexuality by
virtue of its binarial difference.
Kosofsky Sedgwick has argued that sexual interest across gendered (and
thereby genital) lines is not only unproductive but unimaginative. She indicates
alternative dimensions of sexuality that
... recognize object-option quite otherwise (e.g., human/animal, adult/child, singular/plural,
autoerotic/alloerotic) or are not even about object option (e.g., orgasmic/nonorgasmic,
noncommercial/commercial, using bodies simply/using manufactured objects, in private/in
public, spontaneous/scripted).
Queer theory permits US to add to this list along trajectories that usually aren't
encompassed in dialogue on sexuality -- time, space, place, the disunied body or,
as Grosz (1994: 139) hints, body-parts that aren't generally made up as libidi-
nal or gendered zones. Sex -- any theory of sex and thus genitalia -- might
be removed entirely from a trajectory of sexualized want. What queer theory
opens is what pedestrian understandings of sexuality and public sphere discus-
sions of sex discount but worry: that sexuality pervades all components of the subjective
fascinate contemporary culture, and which contemporary culture continues to be
incited by, and to worry.
Skill, consistently sexual, always sensual. In an extremely broad and sensible way, and in
light of the failure of the contextual frames, the lusty can be dened as what
Happens in the encounter between performative subject-bodies and other bodies.
For Butler (1990), the performativity of embodied subjecthood is a citation of the
signier, reiteratively performed such that it confirms retroactively an illusion
of an interior identity core. An extensive and revolutionary treatment of subject perfor-
mativity would consider an 'person' (never quite) subject to be a multiple
alter their signications, as fresh coordinates come into being or are struck
and mentioned, constantly otherwise, in the procedure for performing subject coherence. An
encounter with other issues, including meeting, greeting, sharing space, gazing,
speaking and listening is always lusty in that it infuses the subject's body, changes
the signications of the signiers mentioned by which the matter maintains his or her