SOC 633 Chapter Notes - Chapter 50-61: Lillian Faderman, Bisexuality, Herbert Marcuse
25 Feb 2015
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The heterosexual belief, with its metaphysical claim to eternity, has a particular, pivotal place in the social universe of the late nineteenth and twentieth century"s that did not inhabit earlier. In the early 19th century us, the heterosexual did not exist: middle-class white americans idealized a true womanhood, true manhood and. True love, all characterized by purity (the freedom from sexuality) Early victorian true love was only realized within the mode of proper procreation, marriage, the legal organization for producing a new set of correctly gendered women and men. True women were defined by their distance from lust and true men aspired to the same freedom from concupiscence (although they were perceived to be more carnal than women) Sex was purely for pro-creation, lust between womanhood and manhood was roving. Our modern idea of an eroticized universe began to develop, and the experience of a heterolust began to be widely documented and named.
