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

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The Importance of Premature Interest in Sex

In the late 19th century, powerful social movements focused on vices of all sorts. The consolidation of Victorian morality and its apparatus of social medical and legal enforcement has been bitterly contested ever since. "The idea that masturbation is an unhealthy practice is part of the heritage"

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