{"id":2854,"date":"2016-03-18T20:07:56","date_gmt":"2016-03-18T20:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rifkindcenter.ccny.cuny.edu\/?p=2854"},"modified":"2018-06-01T20:47:24","modified_gmt":"2018-06-01T20:47:24","slug":"what-is-sex-for-a-discussion-with-david-halperin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rifkindcenter.ccny.cuny.edu\/?p=2854","title":{"rendered":"What Is Sex For? &#8211; A discussion with David Halperin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><strong style=\"font-size: 1.0625rem;\">David Halperin<\/strong><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1882 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/rifkindcenter.ccny.cuny.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/2016-March-David-Halperin.png\" sizes=\"(max-width: 216px) 100vw, 216px\" srcset=\"http:\/\/rifkindcenter.ccny.cuny.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/2016-March-David-Halperin.png 216w, http:\/\/rifkindcenter.ccny.cuny.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/2016-March-David-Halperin-154x200.png 154w, http:\/\/rifkindcenter.ccny.cuny.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/2016-March-David-Halperin-150x194.png 150w\" alt=\"2016-march-david-halperin\" width=\"216\" height=\"280\" \/><\/strong><br \/>\nFri, Mar 18, 2016<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">David Halperin is W. H. Auden Distinguished University Professor of the History and Theory of Sexuality at the University of Michigan, where he is also Professor of Classical Studies and of Comparative Literature. He is the author of several books, most\u00a0recently\u00a0How to be Gay.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">This lecture, \u201cWhat is Sex For?\u201d, engages Aristotelian logic and gay male longing as elements in its investigation into how desire is related to the one being desired.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Halperin Fri, Mar 18, 2016 David Halperin is W. H. Auden Distinguished University Professor of the History and Theory of Sexuality at the University of Michigan, where he is also Professor of Classical Studies and of Comparative Literature. He is the author of several books, most\u00a0recently\u00a0How to be Gay. This lecture, \u201cWhat is Sex [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[66,64,63],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rifkindcenter.ccny.cuny.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2854"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rifkindcenter.ccny.cuny.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rifkindcenter.ccny.cuny.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rifkindcenter.ccny.cuny.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rifkindcenter.ccny.cuny.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2854"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rifkindcenter.ccny.cuny.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2855,"href":"https:\/\/rifkindcenter.ccny.cuny.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2854\/revisions\/2855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rifkindcenter.ccny.cuny.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rifkindcenter.ccny.cuny.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rifkindcenter.ccny.cuny.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}