Sexuality Does Not Equal Reason

Descartes put into words the philosophy of reason, how reason should be used in the natural sciences or any other hard science.  Reason is what has shaped the scientific method for hundreds of years where you develop a hypothesis, conduct an experiment, record the results and decide whether your hypothesis could be true.  It has influenced the  mathematics where x, y and z become variables to plug into numerical equations that can be solved.  Descartes's Cartesian method has continued to inhabit the way people approach issues and create the labels: problem, cause, and solution.

However, there are several topics that cannot, and should not, be considered problems, or seen as cause and affect, or approached with solutions, or labeled x, y, z.  There are subjects that have too many potential variables and underlying relationships that to put any sort of classification or any sort of identity to it just creates a bewildering issue with no actual problem, cause, and solution.  What topic immediately comes to mind is sexuality.  Sexuality is a subject that has only spiraled into an endless mess of science, religion, history, and ethics all jumbled up with different perspectives and motivations.  Science looks for a gene or a hormone that is out of synch.  Religious followers claim that homosexuality is a sin with deviant temptations that have to be controlled.  History looks into past civilizations and analyzes different cultures and their perspectives towards homosexuality while ethics examines how everyone else approaches sexuality.

So what has reason done for sexuality?  What has the Cartesian method done to "solve" this so-called "problem".  It has only steered humanity into endless twists and turns to leave us even more confused on sexuality.  This is not a topic that can properly be labeled, identified or solved in any respect.  Sexuality should be viewed as a spectrum where everyone is unique and has different sexual preferences.  There is no right or wrong, straight or gay or bi.  Sexual desires are different from person to person and categorizing people as straight, gay, or bisexual has done more harm than good.

It is always hard to accept the idea that not everything follows reason.  In this world there will always be enigmas and unknowns, so the only reason that makes sense is to accept that.  That not everything will fit into a nice picture or brief definition with clear meaning.  A society with an open-mind and ability to accept anything weird or different is a society that can separate sexuality from Cartesian reason.