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Inventing Sexuality | Ben Miller & Amardeep Singh Dhillon

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The Moral Panic of the Empire's Youth

The idea of same sex attraction as this kind of weakening thing on the body politic, butting heads with a more kind of fascistic understanding of male-male attraction. Same sex desire is this kind of apotheosis of masculine dominance, right? We're so unconcerned with femininity that we're not even bothering to have sex with women anymore. It's part of what I've come to think of terrifyingly as a kind of erotic of fascism or like that kind of the erotic of like the colonial domination. And I'm just kind of wondering how that's playing out today because you have on the one hand a lot of moral panics about gay people undermining society well done team,

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