Comments on: The “Cult of the Clitoris”: Policing Women’s Sexuality in England During WWI

By: Heterosexism in a Scientific Study of Lesbian Attraction – The Other Sociologist

Sun, 09 Dec 2018 01:51:12 +0000

[…] In the early 1900s, one woman’s public knowledge of the clitoris generated tremendous controversy. Over time, as fiction and pornography changed, heterosexual male norms appropriated women having […]

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By: Oscar Wilde’s Last Stand: Decadence, Conspiracy, and the Most Outrageous Trial of the Century | Mysterious Eats

Wed, 07 Nov 2018 05:37:07 +0000

[…] eroticism outraged Noel Pemberton Billing, a member of Parliament. He denounced her as part of the Cult of Clitoris, the female version of the Cult of […]

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By: Rethinking Gender and Sexuality: Case Study of the Native American “Two Spirit” People | The Other Sociologist - Analysis of Difference... By Dr Zuleyka Zevallos

Sun, 08 Sep 2013 22:27:49 +0000

[…] If you look at the age of consent laws around the world, many nations have a higher age at which heterosexual-sex is allowed compared to homosexual sex. In Australia, three states make male-to-male sex permissible two years after male-to-female sex (16 years for heterosexuals, 18 years for homosexual men). Four states have no laws dictating female-to-female sex, even though there are age of consent laws for male-to-female and male-to-male sex. Again, this reflects the Victorian edict that homosexual men present a larger threat to elite interests than lesbian women (although the law denies the human rights of all LGBTQI people when it comes to marriage, child rearing and so on). Histrionically the upper classes perceive lesbian women as dangerous when they are overtly sexual and openly enjoying their bodies. […]

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