In A Critical Introduction to Queer Theory by Nikki Sullivan brings up many diverse topics but they all fall under one umbrella, queer theory. Under the section titled The Social Construction of Same-Sex Desire: Sin, Crime, Sickness, Sullivan opens up by stating that sexuality is not natural but rather socially constructed. Sullivan then goes on to trace back the history of sexuality to when sexologist first gave homosexuality a name. The points that Sullivan brings up are both very interesting and make a person think.
According to Sullivan the idea that one sexuality is ‘normal’ as oppose to another is not viable since all types of sexuality are our own constructed ideas. “Categories for defining particular kinds of relationships and practices …show more content…
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The two males perform same sex relations that are culturally accepted in different forms however what they identify as their sexuality maybe completely different. This just reiterates that what is culturally acceptable influences a person’s sexuality. After discussing how sexuality is a social construct Sullivan then traces the history of sexuality back to 19th century sexologist. Before sexologist ideas became influential homosexuality did not exist, but rather same sex relations also known as sodomy.
In the History of Sexuality, Vol. 1, Foucault traces . . . the shift from sodomy as a crime of which anyone is potentially capable, to an act that is the expression of an innate identity. . . . He says: ‘Homosexuality appeared as one of the forms of sexuality when it was transposed from the practice of sodomy onto a kind of interior androgyny, a hermaphroditism of the soul. The sodomite had been a temporary aberration; the homosexual was now a species
According to Sullivan the idea that one sexuality is ‘normal’ as oppose to another is not viable since all types of sexuality are our own constructed ideas. “Categories for defining particular kinds of relationships and practices …show more content…
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The two males perform same sex relations that are culturally accepted in different forms however what they identify as their sexuality maybe completely different. This just reiterates that what is culturally acceptable influences a person’s sexuality. After discussing how sexuality is a social construct Sullivan then traces the history of sexuality back to 19th century sexologist. Before sexologist ideas became influential homosexuality did not exist, but rather same sex relations also known as sodomy.
In the History of Sexuality, Vol. 1, Foucault traces . . . the shift from sodomy as a crime of which anyone is potentially capable, to an act that is the expression of an innate identity. . . . He says: ‘Homosexuality appeared as one of the forms of sexuality when it was transposed from the practice of sodomy onto a kind of interior androgyny, a hermaphroditism of the soul. The sodomite had been a temporary aberration; the homosexual was now a species