polyglutton Posted June 8 Report Posted June 8 Yes, it is a construct! From a European/Western/Colonial context: it was only in the late 1880s that the concept of homosexuality was invented. Before this, sexual orientation was not medicalised. Sexologists and anthropologists show that the majority of humans fall within a spectrum of bisexuality, with extremes of exclusive hetero- or homosexuality as a small minority. A majority of pre-colonised (by Europeans) indigenous cultures worldwide didn't/don't have norms of exclusive heterosexuality. I highly recommend these books for more on this: Sexual Hegemony by Christopher Chitty When Brooklyn Was Queer by Hugh Ryan Bad Gays by Huw Lemmey and Ben Miller Dawn of Everything by David Graeber and David Wengrow Quote
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