Of Lust And Arms

Of Lust and ArmsThe Debate about gays in the military is really about sex in the military, and it has two fundamental flaws: It's dumb when it talks about sex and it's dumb when it talks about the military. The debate ignores the complexity of human sexual behavior and insists on classifying people as either hetero-or homosexual. Even more important, it fails to understand the sexually repressed, homoerotic nature of the bond that in combat prevents soldiers from fleeing and allows them to fight...