Last week I interviewed good friend and NYC's premier sex therapist to gay men, Eric Schneider. Here's some stuff we talked about:
Same Sex Marriage. Is same sex marriage normalizing an otherwise sexually explorative and expressive gay community?
-Alienation. How when we as a society create an ideal, such as monogamous marriage in this case, we effectively alienate everything else which does not fall into those narrow confines. This creates a lot of difficulty as people become more focused on maintaining an ideal, than actually keeping it real.
-Confusing Monogamy As Safety. It is second nature or intuitive in our culture to use monogamy as a source of safety. Eric reminds us that just because a couple deems themselves monogamous, does not actually make a safe environment. Rather honesty, openness, and trust create safety. And our false reliance on monogamy as an ideal actually perpetuates dishonesty and therefor perhaps creates a lack of safety.
We have a great discussion on monogamy and heterosexuality as conditioning, when in actuality there are many choices and options.
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