Anarchism & Sexuality: Ethics, Relationships and Power by Jamie Heckert & Richard Cleminson

Author:Jamie Heckert & Richard Cleminson [Heckert, Jamie & Cleminson, Richard]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780415658188
Amazon: 0415658187
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012-09-12T04:00:00+00:00

The ending of the story would thus appear to be an unambiguously happy one.

And yet, in spite of this seeming absence of ambiguity, the reader is left pondering an unresolved question of great significance. Shortly before Solly and Teyeo are released from their captivity, and shortly after they make love to one another for the very first time, Teyeo reflects as follows on their situation:

It was curious … how little sex changed anything … the only thing that was truly different was something he had no word for. Sex, comfort, tenderness, love, trust, no word was the right word, the whole word. It was utterly intimate, hidden in the mutuality of their bodies, and it changed nothing in their circumstances, nothing in the world, even the tiny wretched world of their imprisonment.

(Le Guin 1997 [1995]: 104)

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