Balagushkin, Yu. E. Philosophical and Anthropological Aspects of Sexuality (Comments on Edward Tiryakian’s Article About Sexual Anomie)

Abstract: In his article ‘Sexual Anomie, Social Structure, Societal Changes’ the American sociologist and cultural philosopher Edward Tiryakian analyzed Durkheim’s theory of sexual relations as the basis of the social structure and focused his attention on sexual anomie as one of the most nettlesome problems of a modern human believing that these views fairly present the modern situation in the society and culture. Tiryakian views different aspects of the social regulation of sexuality and analyzes the nature and consequences of the sexual revolution in the Western society. Philosophical and anthropological issues of sexuality are viewed with reference to the dynamics of socio-cultural relations and processes, based on the theory of sexual anomie and analysis of the consequences of the sexual revolution and taking into account the gender-based approach. As a part of human nature, sexuality is interpreted as a complex and systematically organized phenomenon that has different functions and purposes. The cultural and historical phenomenon of sexuality is exposed to socialization and culturalization and at the same time as a natural element of human nature, sexuality has a great impact on the cultural formation and development. At the modern stage of historical development the problem of sexual anomie is of particular importance because it acquires a new axiological and socio-cultural meaning due to innovation processes of the sexual revolution that have led to fundamental and diversified transformations of the sexual component of human nature and basic aspects of human identity.

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