In my Foucault post below, I mentioned Louis Crompton’s Homosexuality and Civilization, which argues against the Foucauldian view that the notion of a homosexual identity (as opposed to homosexual behavior, which has been around longer than humans) originated in the 19th century. I suggested there that the book may actually supply a point in favor […]

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This weekend, I finally got around to reading volume one of Foucault’s History of Sexuality. This volume, at least, is not so much a “history” as an interpretive lens or framework for thinking about a history that Foucault assumes a fair amount of familiarity with on the reader’s part. Though infinitely more intelligible than most […]

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Anyone else find it incongruous that the online ads for the dating service True.com invariably feature: Text referencing how they’ll help you find true love, and Visuals of D-cup cleavage? Are they guaranteeing that they’ll find your soul-mate and that she’ll be stacked?

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From CrookedTimber: I had to share this detail from the Family Research Council’s webpage for their book Getting It Straight:What the Research Shows About Homosexuality: Chapter 6: Is There a Link between Homosexuality and Child Sexual Abuse? Ã?· A study of 229 convicted child molesters in Archives of Sexual Behavior found that “eighty-six percent of […]

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