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The Origin of Queer Theory: Gayle Rubin's "Thinking Sex"

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The Fallacy of Misplaced Scale

In some states, sodomy still carries 25 year prison sentences. Sex law has been incorporated into the religious attitude that heretical sex is an especially heinous sin. The most despised sexual casts currently include transsexuals, transvestites, fetishists and sadomasochists. As sexual behaviors or occupations fall lower on the scale, the individuals who practice them are subjected to a presumption of mental illness,. criminality, restricted social and physical mobility, loss of institutional support and economic sanctions.

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