How so?

I'm not exactly sure how this blows up Queer Theory. Isn't QT supposed to be about questioning old notions of what's "normal"? "the overwhelmingly dominant form of male homosexuality in the early modern Mediterranean world lay in pederastic affairs between men and boys in their teens" OK, but hasn't that age always been the age of prime sexual attractiveness (of either sex)? Old Xanthippe may not have received much in the way of passionate love poems, but she would have still been the norm. "... the onset of facial hair spelled the end of a boy's sexual desirability." To whom? While there may have been exclusive pedophiles among ancient examples of homosexuality, it paints a very broad brush to say what had made a boy no longer attractive. "At one point, he notes that the overwhelming majority of surviving Ottoman love poetry from the period concerned boys, not women." That's interesting, but one must wonder to what extent women in the muslim world were allowed to be literate enough to appreciate a good love letter. Just a few random thoughts.