No, really, say after me 'It's always more complicated'
Further to this, this article in today's Guardian makes many cogent points, e.g.
Fry's spectacular ability to entirely dismiss the culture of shame, sexual threat and social stigma associated with female sexuality seems offensively myopic.
but then rather shoots itself in the foot in the final paragraph, alas:
The uncomfortable truth is that gay or straight, male or female, we all have kinky thoughts. Nearly everyone, whatever their particular proclivities, is liable to go a bit funny when presented with the prospect of a rummage in somebody else's pants. Fusty bourgeois refusal to accept that most people are simply gagging for it most of the time, including women and queers, remains at the root of most sexism and homophobia.
We, well, I, would really like some recognition that, actually, lots of people, including a significant % of straight men (and I would hazard a not insignificant number of gay men), are not, in fact, 'gagging for it' most of the time.
I do not think that this counts as 'fusty bourgeois refusal' but a recognition of the infinite complexity and variability of human desire.
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