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

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The Fallacy of the Misplaced Scale

Reich: We need the evocative passion of Reich who literally is like screaming about his desire for complete sexual liberation. He says there are at least five other ideological formations whose grip on sexual thought is so strong that to fail to discuss them is to remain immeshed in Gnostic imprisonment. The culture always treats sex with suspicion, he says; it construes and judges almost any sexual practice in terms of its worst possible expression.

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