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I have removed the "Mars and Venus" symbol, as it implicitly privileges heterosexuality. Currently looking for a replacement ... any suggestions? rocketfairy
I think you're all being much too sensitive. I'm bi, and i see no problem with representing human sexuality with this image -- it contains the two typical sexes and suggests the most typical act, if it suggests any act at all. To be fair, i have less reason to be bothered than some other groups, but i think most people would agree that it's most logical to assume someone is heterosexual -- that's the overwhelming majority, even with Kinsey scales. If there is a better image with which Wikipedia can represent human sexuality, i'd love to see it. (Seriously, that would be awesome.) -- BranER 21:00, 18 June 2007
I disagree with BranER, the bisexual, in that the binary gender system is a social construct, and people who are genderqueer absolutely do have a sexuality. We definitely should have a symbol that leaves out gender and sex completely, because there aren't just two (as the current symbol may suggest). I think the footprints are recognizable as such, and are pretty good. Doesn't necessarily hit me as meaning 'sexuality', but with the text next to it it's good enough. Coming up with a universal symbol for sexuality is nearly impossible, because it's so incredibly broad. -- Billyjoekini 05:21, 19 July 2007 (UTC)
Are you sure the current image wouldn't fit better as the symbol for the anal sex template? Seriously, though, what's wrong with having the two symbols separate, so that we don't implicitly exclude all the other ways of doing it? I'd urge a compromise where we add in a second man , but I doubt it'd fly. -- 01:01, 19 September 2007 User:Mqduck
What about one of these? or . -- 01:53, 18 May 2010 User:Sawibel07
no offense, but something like this would be much better. Of course it would have to say SeX not LaTeX, but I don't know latex. Lysis rationale ( talk) 00:26, 26 November 2007 (UTC)
Here's an even more abstractly symbolic image... AnonMoos ( talk) 12:36, 11 January 2009 (UTC)
An improvement! -- AnonMoos ( talk) 17:51, 15 February 2009 (UTC)
I too have to say that I found the symbol quite ironic when, while reading about Sandra Leiblum, I came across the article about the Journal of Gay and Lesbian Social Services. The article mentions day-to-day experiences of people affected by heterosexism, while just a few centimeters below that sentence one can see File:HeteroSym-pinkblue2.svg as the sole symbol of sexuality. Surtsicna ( talk) 00:26, 4 February 2013 (UTC)
I find it a bit strange that this template links to sexology, which is the "study of human sexuality". It seems far more appropriate that it link to human sexuality itself. -- Dan Griscom ( talk) 06:11, 2 March 2013 (UTC)
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I have removed the "Mars and Venus" symbol, as it implicitly privileges heterosexuality. Currently looking for a replacement ... any suggestions? rocketfairy
I think you're all being much too sensitive. I'm bi, and i see no problem with representing human sexuality with this image -- it contains the two typical sexes and suggests the most typical act, if it suggests any act at all. To be fair, i have less reason to be bothered than some other groups, but i think most people would agree that it's most logical to assume someone is heterosexual -- that's the overwhelming majority, even with Kinsey scales. If there is a better image with which Wikipedia can represent human sexuality, i'd love to see it. (Seriously, that would be awesome.) -- BranER 21:00, 18 June 2007
I disagree with BranER, the bisexual, in that the binary gender system is a social construct, and people who are genderqueer absolutely do have a sexuality. We definitely should have a symbol that leaves out gender and sex completely, because there aren't just two (as the current symbol may suggest). I think the footprints are recognizable as such, and are pretty good. Doesn't necessarily hit me as meaning 'sexuality', but with the text next to it it's good enough. Coming up with a universal symbol for sexuality is nearly impossible, because it's so incredibly broad. -- Billyjoekini 05:21, 19 July 2007 (UTC)
Are you sure the current image wouldn't fit better as the symbol for the anal sex template? Seriously, though, what's wrong with having the two symbols separate, so that we don't implicitly exclude all the other ways of doing it? I'd urge a compromise where we add in a second man , but I doubt it'd fly. -- 01:01, 19 September 2007 User:Mqduck
What about one of these? or . -- 01:53, 18 May 2010 User:Sawibel07
no offense, but something like this would be much better. Of course it would have to say SeX not LaTeX, but I don't know latex. Lysis rationale ( talk) 00:26, 26 November 2007 (UTC)
Here's an even more abstractly symbolic image... AnonMoos ( talk) 12:36, 11 January 2009 (UTC)
An improvement! -- AnonMoos ( talk) 17:51, 15 February 2009 (UTC)
I too have to say that I found the symbol quite ironic when, while reading about Sandra Leiblum, I came across the article about the Journal of Gay and Lesbian Social Services. The article mentions day-to-day experiences of people affected by heterosexism, while just a few centimeters below that sentence one can see File:HeteroSym-pinkblue2.svg as the sole symbol of sexuality. Surtsicna ( talk) 00:26, 4 February 2013 (UTC)
I find it a bit strange that this template links to sexology, which is the "study of human sexuality". It seems far more appropriate that it link to human sexuality itself. -- Dan Griscom ( talk) 06:11, 2 March 2013 (UTC)