âToward a Better Loveâ -- Roque Dalton
âSex is a political condition.â â Kate Millet
No one disputes that sex is a condition in the world of the couple: from there, tenderness and its wild branches.
No one disputes that sex is a domestic condition: from there, kids, nights in common and days divided (he, looking for bread in the street, in offices or factories; she, in the rear guard of domestic functions, in the strategy and tactic of the kitchen that allows survival in a common struggle at least to the end of the month).
No one disputes that sex in an economic condition: itâs enough to mention prostitution, fashion, the sections in the dailies that are only for her or only for him.
Where the hassles begin is when a woman says sex is a political condition.
Because when a woman says sex is a political condition she can begin to stop being just a woman in herself in order to become a woman for herself, establishing the woman in woman from the basis of her humanity on not of her sex, knowing that the magic deodorant with a hint of lemon and soap that voluptuously caresses her skin are made by the same manufacturer that makes napalm knowing the labors of the homes themselves are labors of a social class to which that home belongs, that the difference between the sexes burns much better in the loving depth of night when all those secrets that kept us masked and alien are revealed.
(Roque Dalton --Â San Salvador, El Salvador, 14 May 1935 â Quezaltepeque, El Salvador, 10 May 1975)Â













