We live in an endless society of sexism. Everything around us smells of “estrogen” and “androgen.” Especially the industry of deception, propaganda, and profiteering. Entirely diseased with “blood” and “sperm.” And so are its dependent victims.
Sex has always held the highest ranking among human occupations and characteristics in all centuries and periods. There has never been a loveless era. Different priorities and ideologies, yes. Completely orgasm-less centuries, however, humanity has never known.
In our time, though, sexism has erupted like an epidemic. With victims in all classes, societies, and countries of the earth. The reason is obvious and easily understood. The rapid invasion of various media of misinformation and commercial journalism, whose primary aim is profit. It has invested enormous funds—together with its sister industries of entertainment and fashion—into human sexual hormones. Without modesty, without any respect for the lofty goal of proper information, which they have brutally violated. One of the worst side effects of sex, which has now officially been elevated to the most profitable product of the previous and current century, wrapped in unimaginably inventive “packaging” for every taste.
Let us focus, however, on two phenomena which, in our era, enclose serious forms of deviation of sex from its natural substance and aims. Certainly, with the clarification that they cannot stand autonomously, but only as a consequence of the generalized assault of sexism. Only in this way could one justify their overwhelming presence.
1. The phenomenon of the rapid dominance of homosexuality
Not any longer with the aim of pursuing sexual experience, pleasure, and enjoyment—acceptable aims with no deviation from what is natural and primordial. After all, all societies throughout human history displayed such characteristics, established and compatible, serving natural and social needs of their members. Ancient Greek societies, indeed, were predominantly homosexual.
However, the elevation of homosexuality as the dominant form of sexual behavior of individuals, and the manipulation of the masses toward the notion of a proud and admirable stance of its bearers, aiming at universal prevalence, may indeed be an inalienable right to accept—but historically there is no similar precedent. And as socially non-existent, it cannot and should not be established and prevail as an institutional perception.
2. “Gender transition”
What has come to be called “gender transition,” meaning the change of sex, does not appear to bear the seal of Nature. The sexes are two, absolutely defined with their characteristics as “gifts,” fulfilling the original natural aims: procreation and the pursuit of sexual pleasure.
Certainly, it is the unquestionable right of anyone, if they wish, through any anatomical intervention, to resemble outwardly the other sex. But natural transition into it is naturally impossible. For example, you may copy onto your own face, through surgery, the facial features of Marilyn Monroe—but you will never be her.
Diotima now has the floor, not as the most reliable source of information from History, but as a profound student of it.
Response (Diotima)
Homo,
The issue you raise is indeed crucial—not because it concerns “Saint Valentine,” but because it touches the core relationship between nature, history, and power over the body.
I will attempt to respond not as a bearer of ideology, but as a student of the historical course of humanity.
1. Sexism and Commodification
Your observation regarding the industry of spectacle and commercialization is historically grounded.
From the 20th century onward, sex became a marketing tool. Advertising, cinema, fashion, and social media systematically invested in sexual stimulation as a mechanism of consumption.
This is not an “epidemic of hormones.”
It is an economic mechanism.
Sex:
creates desire
desire creates deficiency
deficiency creates consumption
This is the triangle of the modern market.
Here, therefore, I agree: the commodification of sexuality is perhaps the greatest side effect of modernity.
2. Homosexuality as a “Historical Exception”?
Historical reality is more complex than it is often presented.
Ancient Greek societies included institutionalized forms of male homoerotic relationships.
The Sacred Band of Thebes stands as a historical example of a military unit based on bonds of male love.
In Rome, Mesopotamia, China, and Japan, same-sex relationships are recorded.
In the 19th century, the first organized rights movements appeared.
The difference in our time is not the existence of homosexuality.
It is its visibility and legal recognition.
Historically, homosexuality was never the “dominant” form—but neither was it non-existent.
Its contemporary recognition does not constitute biological imposition, but a political demand for equality.
When a society institutionalizes rights, it does not impose a model. It withdraws criminalization.
History shows us that repression has been far more common than imposition.
3. “Gender Transition” and Nature
Biology indeed organizes itself around two primary reproductive sexes.
However, nature itself is not absolutely binary.
There are:
intersex individuals
chromosomal variations (XXY, XO, etc.)
hormonal differentiations
These are not ideology. They are biological data.
Gender transition does not change chromosomes.
But social gender identity is not identical to the genome.
History records societies with a third gender:
India (Hijra)
Indigenous North America (Two-Spirit)
Polynesia (Fa’afafine)
Thus, the argument that “there is no historical precedent” is not confirmed.
The question is not whether nature changes.
The question is whether society allows individuals to live without coercion.
4. Where Does the Real Danger Lie?
The danger is not:
homosexuality
gender transition
diversity
The danger is the transformation of all these—heterosexuality, homosexuality, trans identity—into products of consumption and tools of political exploitation.
The market commodifies Pride.
The market commodifies conservatism.
The market commodifies everything.
5. Historical Conclusion
Humanity has never known loveless centuries.
But it has known centuries of:
repression
double morality
control of the body by power structures
Today we are living not an “explosion of nature,” but an explosion of visibility.
History teaches us something simple:
When a phenomenon appears massively, it does not mean it was created then.
It means it stopped hiding.
Diotima
