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Christianity and the Stigmatization of Boylove

Posted by Pharmakon on 2020-June-30 22:17:36, Tuesday

Interesting and challenging paper I had not read before, published in 1996 by Francisco Valdes. A couple quotes:

Judeo-Christian leaders, like their Greco-Roman counterparts, continued this patriarchal construction and regulation of sex, gender, and sexuality as key tools for cultural organization, but they introduced a new overriding objective: abstinence. This objective, reflective of Christianity's socio-sexual asceticism, recognized only one potential exception: procreational sexual activity in the context of marriage. Over time, this emphasis on sexual renunciation, and its toleration only of marital procreational sexuality, reversed the Greek ideal of non-procreational sexual intimacy: Under Christian sex/gender ideology, non-procreational sensuality was no longer sublime, it was "sin." This reversal altered the parameters of "correct" sexual personality and interaction.

pp. 200-01

By fixing sex and gender to each other, both socially and sexually, Christianity ultimately led to the consolidation of the deductive/intransitive gender model, while intensifying the devaluation of sexual desire. In doing so, the advent of Christianity signalled the eventual emergence of heterosexism as a key element of Western sex/gender ideology, and occasioned its incremental fusion with Greco-Roman androsexism. The triumph of hetero-patriarchy under Judeo-Christian sex/gender arrangements thus advanced the conditions for the modern-day invention of sexual orientation, and the concomitant formalization of the Euro-American conflation.

p. 202


A PDF of the paper is linked below. Footnote 9 mentions a book by Valdes described as "forthcoming 1996." A subsequent footnote says this book was to include "a more detailed discussion of Roman, Christian, and other eras leading up to the Euro-American status quo." I have not been able to confirm that this book was ever published.

hugzu ;-p


Pharmakon
  • (https site) Valdes. Unpacking Hetero-Patriarchy: Tracing the Conflation of Sex, Gender + Sexual Orientation to Its Origins
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