Sex and Chance: Strange Bedfellows? :: Philosophy Essays

Sex and Chance Strange Bedfellows?Hi tosh was sex, French was sex, cheat was sex, the Bible... everyaffair was sex except biology which was obviously sex but non really sex, not the one that was secret and ecstatic and wicked and a sacrament and all the things it was supposed to be but couldnt be at one and the same time-- I got that in the boiler room and it dark out to be biology after all. (Stoppard, 218)Ill admit it. Im fascinated by sex. After all, it is the reason that we are all here, isnt it? And not just thank to our parents for years and years and years, sex has been the motor driving the evolutionary process. I dont think people give sex enough credit for its design in the evolutionary process. Call evolution survival of the fittest, call it hit-or-miss chance, call it whatever you want-- in the end, whoevers left alive is just distinct for another body in which to find comfort. I have not always been fascinated by sex. An infamous family story records my disgust whe n I first learned about the birds and the bees. Apparently, I turned around in the car seat to look at my baby brother You smashed you did it twice?? Part of my growing fascination has been a result of the evolving story I have been told/am telling myself about sex. In class, prof Grobstein taught us about lateral transfer, and Elizabeth dubbed sex the transfer of genic material. I dont like to think about sex in purely clinical terms, however. Its not just my status as a hopeless romantic, its also my belief that sex is bigger than the incase of words it is often put into. Sex is a growing, changing thing that is going through its own evolution. Not that the process itself has changed much its charitable interpretation and response to sex that continues to evolve. Also , if sex is allowed leeway to plump beyond the clinical level, it gains greater importations (not that birth isnt a great implication by any means). As Stoppard puts it Einstein- relativity and sex. Chippendale - sex and furniture. Galileo- Did the earth locomote? (Stoppard, 90). In this sense, everything we do is linked inextricably to sex. (Upon writing this previous sentence, I realized that I have picked a topic which is quite beyond the scope of this paper, and would require many many years of research.