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The Origin of Queer Theory: Gayle Rubin's "Thinking Sex"
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The Marxist Mythology of Sexual Ideology
Popular culture is permeated with ideas that erotic variety is dangerous and healthy to preyed in a menace to everything from small children to national security. The equate sexual masochism with self-destructive personality patterns, sexual sadism with emotional aggression, and homoeroticism with immaturity. These terminological muddles have become powerful stereotypes that are indiscriminately applied to individuals on the basis of their sexual orientations. All these hierarchies of sexual value function in much the same ways as do ideological systems of racism, ethnocentrism, and religious chauvinism. They rationalize the well-being of the sexually privileged and the adversity of the sexual rabble.
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