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

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The Moral Hierarchy of Sexual Activities

When medicine and psychiatry acquired extensive powers over sexuality, they were less concerned with unsuitable mates than with unfit forms of desire. The most recent addition DSM-3 removed homosexuality from the roster of mental disorders after a long political struggle. Fetishism, sadism, masochism, transsexuality, transvestism, exhibitionism, voyeurism, and pedophilia are still firmly firmly entrenched as psychological malfunctions.

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