Thomas Laqueur's Making Sex
 

Thomas Laqueur's Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud (Harvard University Press, 1992)
 
prior to the seventeenth century, "sexual epistemology" (Preciado's phrasing) was set up as "a system of similarities" (Laqueur's phrasing)
 
Preciado: "female sexual anatomy was set up as a weak, internalized, degenerate variation of the only sex that possessed an ontological existence, the male"
 
a "monosexual" model

> from Paul Preciado's Testo Junkie: Sex, Drugs, and Biopolitics in the Pharmacopornographic Era (2008, translated 2013)

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