Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Foreign Policy | The Sex Issue




When U.S. magazines devote special issues to sex, they are usually of the celebratory variety (see: Esquire, April 2012 edition; Cosmopolitan, every month). Suffice it to say that is not what we had in mind with Foreign Policy's first-ever Sex Issue, which is dedicated instead to the consideration of how and why sex -- in all the various meanings of the word -- matters in shaping the world's politics. Why? In Foreign Policy, the magazine and the subject, sex is too often the missing part of the equation -- the part that the policymakers and journalists talk about with each other, but not with their audiences. And what's the result? Women missing from peace talks and parliaments, sexual abuse and exploitation institutionalized and legalized in too many places on the planet, and a U.S. policy that, whether intentionally or not, all too frequently works to shore up the abusers and perpetuate the marginalization of half of humanity. Women's bodies are the world's battleground, the contested terrain on which politics is played out. We can keep ignoring it. For this one issue, we decided not to. 



2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Holly Crap!!!

Is Theary Seng having an issue with her sexuality?

Anonymous said...

Now,Is not astonishing!In all the suject da has approah the sex!I was hear for radio has sum lady or men no want go to because it difficult for them.So they prefect have sex with everybody is plus easy and to earn more than to work,Now,Is in fashin...It's simple for understand,the younger generation lazy.I'm regret but is like these!