Research on the proliferation of things like urinal privacy barriers, the disappearance of spaces of social nudity like communal showers?

https://www.reddit.com/r/QueerTheory/comments/1hqsi4l/research_on_the_proliferation_of_things_like/

created by No_Key2179 on 01/01/2025 at 01:11 UTC

23 upvotes, 2 top-level comments (showing 2)

I subscribe to Hocquenghem's theory that sexual orientation - and the concept of sexuality itself - is a fiction and convenient locus for societal regulation of sexual normativity. That the erotic exists in every single relation you have to the world and culture demands a magnification or suppression of it in various ways in order to create the family structure and reproduce society through generations.

I am interested in how heteronormativity has maintained itself in the modern era of homosexual acceptance through limiting the opportunities for people (especially men) to become aware of latent homosexual desires within themselves. Has there been any research into this area?

Comments

Comment by FoolishDog at 01/01/2025 at 02:03 UTC

9 upvotes, 0 direct replies

• Sexual Hegemony* is probably the kind of investigation you’re looking for, especially because it even has a whole chapter on the emergence of public restrooms and its relation to ‘homosexuality’

Comment by mariollinas at 01/01/2025 at 10:25 UTC

5 upvotes, 1 direct replies

Glad to see Hocquenghem mentioned here!