Foucault 42: "The [nineteenth century] persecution of the peripheral sexualities entailed an incorporation of perversions and a new specification of individuals."
It used to be that "sodomy was a category of forbidden acts," but "[t]he nineteenth-century homosexual became a personage, a past, a case history, and a childhood, in addition to being a type of life, a life form, and a morphology, with an indiscreet anatomy and possibly a mysterious physiology"