I am starting this thread partly because of current events (a LGBT rep at Edinburgh University who seems very unwell, and odd, has been expressing views that were, amongst other things, lesbophobic and misogynistic). But I actually wanted to start it before I read that, and didn't get up my courage to think it through.
What I want to ask you is, how do you think women's sexualities are formed? What's the relationship between bodies and socialisation?
I am currently thinking that sexualities that don't include men (lesbianism, sometimes bisexuality) seem to be taken as a kind of threat by patriarchy - but so do other kinds of sexuality that don't fit the patriarchal desire for women to be sex objects. Sexuality for mothers, maybe? Sexuality for rape survivors? Do you think patriarchy is uncomfortable with these, too? I think it must be. I am trying to work out what the common thread is.
What can we do to help younger women form healthy sexualities?