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

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The Problem With a Pluralistic Sexual Ethics

"It is difficult to develop a pluralistic sexual ethics without a concept of benign sexual variation," he says. "One need not like or perform a particular sex act in order to recognize that someone else will and that this difference does not indicate a lack of good taste, mental health or intelligence." We have learned to cherish different cultures as unique expressions of human inventiveness rather than the inferior or disgusting habits of savages, writes David Frum.

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