Gus Moystad’s Reviews > Sexual Hegemony: Statecraft, Sodomy, and Capital in the Rise of the World System > Status Update

“The ritual drowning and consignment of sodomites’ bodies to the abyss was part of a moral geography associating political power with dominion over water[…]; losses of power were figured in narrative accounts of drowning, shipwrecks, and the oblivion of the deep. The drowning of the sodomite produced signs of his foreignness, of his lack of control over his own appetites, his moral culpability.”

This gon be one of those that takes forever to read bcuz of crunchy academic language but I definitely love it so far. Gay history ftw