Sexuality (WAS Asexual?)

[Kirstini]

Apologies for two posts in a row (jet-lag, lalala, see above)
Boggley Jennifer wrote:
> Er, I didn't realize "Science" defined anything.  Perhaps 
biologists have done so. However, the definition you give above is 
not for sexuality, but for sex.  I'm not sure it says anything 
meaningful about sexuality as such. <snip the rest of a really 
excellent and interesting post> 

Something that has bothered me in my reading over of this thread has 
been the confusion of the terms "gender" and "sex" (biological). One 
is not gendered from birth, one is born with a biological sex 
(usually, not always, as Jennifer pointed out). Gender is much more 
of a mental process, one of becoming, and more closely linked to 
perceptions, social mores, and sexuality as Jennifer wrote it in the 
post above. Okay, itch scratched. I'm going to go lie in bed and 
stare up at the ceiling for a few hours. Jennifer, have you read 
Jeanette Winterston's "Written on the Body"?

Kirstini