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So the book is done at this point, now it's a bunch of notes which considering how i don't know much about this topic feels like I should do. However, the lens of hetero vs homo is still problematic & it acts like the liberalization was democratic in the concluding paragraph. The rephrasing would be censorship of these criminalization records is used to further scam Russians under the Washington consensus.
— Dec 05, 2022 04:53AM
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Eve
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This prison sexuality & rape culture chapter/epilogue is way more interesting than chapter 8 especially since hetero/homo normalizes child abuse as based on attraction instead of assault.
— Dec 04, 2022 09:52PM
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Chapter 8 is pissing me off because it conflates older adults like 40+ with kids & teenage kids based on genitalia... It's 1 thing to say the Soviet legal system did this but it's another to be talking as if CSA is gay or based on attraction instead of desire to abuse
— Nov 14, 2022 05:02AM
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We're now in chapter 6
So let's give some bluntnesses
The Soviet establishment wanted to pathologize LGBT+ people, using hormone theories & other assimilationist bioessentialism promoted by M Hirschfeld. They had no knowledge centers & they were reactive instead of the gathersome kind
To be fair, USSR's infrastructure struggled to get cell samples to use for biological & hormone research.
— Aug 27, 2022 08:59AM
So let's give some bluntnesses
The Soviet establishment wanted to pathologize LGBT+ people, using hormone theories & other assimilationist bioessentialism promoted by M Hirschfeld. They had no knowledge centers & they were reactive instead of the gathersome kind
To be fair, USSR's infrastructure struggled to get cell samples to use for biological & hormone research.
Eve
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this section about the 1920's is let's say suspenseful? like i'm on edge, i'm nervous. it's like death vs conversion torture vs sexual liberation
— Aug 27, 2022 08:29AM
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"The vice, while chiefly blamed on Islamic traditions of female seclusion, was in this region also supposedly urban, the result of male mobility and the opportunities created by commodified private spaces"
So that's a lot of racism
— Aug 27, 2022 07:20AM
So that's a lot of racism
Eve
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But seriously that surveillance of kids is shit k was put under because of how much transphobia there was
— Aug 27, 2022 07:05AM
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Foucault turns out to believe that psychiatry is bourgeois (fair enough)
Then Bekhterev be using M. Hirschfeld's assimilationist mistake of looking for bioessentialist markers of homosexuality... Damn & woah. Also, fuck momism
— Aug 27, 2022 07:05AM
Then Bekhterev be using M. Hirschfeld's assimilationist mistake of looking for bioessentialist markers of homosexuality... Damn & woah. Also, fuck momism
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We're now in euphemisms and forensics vs psychiatry. Also how the Russian Orthodox church understood men who bottom as evidence against their whole ideology
— Aug 27, 2022 06:49AM
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[...] Mikhail Zolotonosov, “Masturbanizatsiia: ‘Erogennye zony’ sovetskoi kul’tury, 1920–1930-kh godov,” in Erotika v russkoi literature: Ot Barkova do nashikh dnei (Literaturnoe obozrenie. Spetsial’nyi vypusk), eds. I. D. Prokhorova, S. Iu. Mazur, and G. V. Zykova (Moscow: Literaturnoe obozrenie, 1992), 97.
— Aug 25, 2022 08:31AM