In chapter 4 of Lesbian Ethics, Sarah Hoagland argues that desire is a socially and politically constructed perception and that in today's heterosexual society the current concept of desire forces and perpetuates division between reason and emotion emotion. Hoagland focuses on sexual desire, however his analysis can be applied to the desires of any person, object, or action. I will give an account of Hoagland's views on desire, reason, and emotion; I will analyze three things I want: my career, developing a family and earning enough money for that family to live comfortably, why I want them, and how my desires are socially constructed; I will conclude by determining, based on my analysis of desires, which I agree with Hoagland, that reason and emotion are inseparable and attempts to separate them are harmful. In today's heterosexual and patriarchal society, sex and sexual desires revolve around men, and Hoagland poses seven models that show how this happens. Sex is thought of as a “powerful and uncontrollable impulse” and male sexuality is therefore a fundamental component of male health, sexual acts demonstrate male conquest and dominance, sexual freedom gives men total access to and over women, Rape is, by this logic, natural and women who resist a man's advances are “frigid,” sex involves loss of control, and sexual desire, when described as erotic, “implies a death wish (eros).” . The bottom line is that in today's heterosexual, patriarchal society, sex is exclusively about men's natural power over women; sex involves a total loss of control which creates a divide between reason and emotion since being in control is a matter of reason controlling emotions, "we tend to believe that to be safe we ​​have to be rational and in control, but... .middle of paper......and that this split is destructive. This separation forces us to act with only one aspect of ourselves at a time emotions or being emotional is equivalent to losing control and is therefore negative (in today's heterosexual and patriarchal society). This separation can be seen in our current interpretations of desire as non-rational, erotic and therefore out of control , involves reason and emotion, both to determine what we want, reason to help decipher how to get it, and emotion to give us the drive to work towards it. Reason and emotion are inseparable and when we try to separate them we end up fragmenting. Works Cited Hoagland, S. L. (1988). Lesbian ethics: Toward a new value (1st ed.). Palo Alto, California: Institute for Lesbian Studies