The Xenopolis Confederation wrote:Diopolis wrote:Gnothi Sauton, because a woman's place is not in the military. The officer corps should be made up of gentlemen, and so should have conduct which, like other servants of the state, shows the public how to act. Even if a woman would make an excellent officer, it would be best if other uses were to be found for her talents to avoid encouraging individualist attitudes amongst the people.
Because the natural telos of the sexual act is to, in the first place, generate children, in the second, to bond their parents, and only in the third for concupable purposes. Homosexual couples cannot have children, and so only the third part can be reached, and so homosexual sex, much like casual sex, is degeneracy. Of course, there's nothing that needs to be illegal about courtly love style romance without sex, but it looks bad, so should not be encouraged among the citizenry.
You would deprive yourself of a fine officer just to discourage the slightest ounce of individualism?
There are a number of fine officers to be found without recruiting women. Their place is on the home front.
No, the purpose of sex is not recreation, the purpose is whatever those involved in the sex want.
That may be the case in individual liaisons, but the natural purpose of sexual relationships is the threefold of which I spoke. That which destroys such a natural meaning is degenerate, whether by subverting one purpose(contraception, casual sex) or separating the purposes from one another(as with homosexuality).
