PrintMay 9, 2010
Nonsexual Zones of Trust and Military Policy
The military is under pressure to remove the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy (DADT). But to understand what our troops stand to lose if this policy changes, one must first understand sexualized zones, nonsexual zones, and the benefits of taboos.Historically, one's own gender has been a nonsexual zone. Modern society has devalued this particular nonsexual zone because the Sexual Revolution has denigrated the taboos surrounding it and promoted sexuality at all costs. DADT may be one of the last vestiges of this taboo.But taboos do not exist simply because of bigotry, as some would claim. Sexual taboos function in society to keep certain areas of our lives nonsexual. Nonsexual zones foster a special kind of trust because a person doesn't have to wonder whether what is said or done carries some sort of sexual implication or not. Generally speaking, the relationship between men and women is biologically and historically a sexualized zone. Within a sexualized zone, either...(Read Full Article)
