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绪论 - 什么是性行为? |
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性及性行为的术语演变史
2：林奈与“上帝”的较量
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从一定程度上看，对林奈的“性征分类法”的反对呼声是可以理解的。对于许多道德卫道士来说，林奈和其他的科学家们用这个分类系统似乎有“性化”大自然的意图，或者换一个说法，他们正将草木也淫荡化了。这种指控并不公正，实际上这个分类系统明确地向人们表达了一个确切的总体概念。随着生物学和医学的快速进步，越来越多生命的研究禁区被勇敢地打破了，解剖学与行为的对比研究开展了起来，结构与行为之间的相关联系得到了验证，这是以前从没有被人注意到的现象。一旦人们开始把玫瑰花和水仙花考虑成有性的生命体的时候，性的概念就彻底地获得了全新的发展空间。性忽然变得无孔不入了，并被指为一旦性变得泛滥的时候，就一定会对年轻人那骚动的头脑产生有害的影响。然而，具有讽刺意味的是，这些道德卫道士们自己不久就利用不断延伸出来的新的研究成果了，他们通过讲述“鲜花、飞鸟和蜜蜂”向孩子们解释人类的生殖现象。
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Introduction - What is sexual behavior? |
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History of the Term 3
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To a certain degree, the objections to Linné’s “sexual classification method” were understandable. To many moralists it seemed that Linné and other scientists were trying to "sexualize" nature or, in other words, that they were imputing a lascivious purpose to the growth of every last leaf of grass. This charge was unfair, but it articulated a valid general impression. With the rapid advance of biological and medical research, more and more areas of life were fearlessly investigated, anatomies and behaviors were compared, and connections were demonstrated where none had ever been noticed before.
Once people started to think of roses and daffodils as sexual beings, the concept of sex gained entirely new dimensions. Sex suddenly became all-pervasive, and this realization, in turn, was bound to have a bad influence on the excitable minds of the young. Ironically, however, after a while the moralists themselves took advantage of the enlarged new perspective and explained human reproduction to their children by talking about "the flowers, the birds, and the bees".
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