[lbo-talk] Irish priests beat, raped children

[SA]

--- On Fri, 5/22/09, Lenin's Tomb <leninstombblog at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> As for why certain desires are considered perverse, I still
>> think you're
>> barking up the wrong tree.  Homosexuality obviously
>> wasn't considered an
>> illness according to the DSM classifications because of
>> what the majority
>> could or could not imagine feeling, if Kinsey's findings
>> were accurate.  The
>> roots of such contemporary categories are surely to be
>> found in doctrines of
>> 'hygeine' arising from 18th and 19th Century medicine, the
>> biologising of
>> what had previously been seen as 'moral' states and their
>> reinterpretation
>> as infections; the development of race theory, the accounts
>> of masculinity
>> that arose within it, and concepts of race 'health'; and
>> the gendered
>> identities produced through colonial domination

But the Old Testament says for a man to lie with a man is an 
abomination, so it seems these hygiene doctrines were in fact very old 
ideas from human history dressed up in modern garb, rather than really 
owing their existence to modern imperialism and such. No?

SA