"As we have seen, sexual deviance can be approached in at least four ways:
• It may be ridiculed as a personal quirk (as in the strictly heterosexual Siwan male),
• it may be condemned as a sign of immorality (as in the orgasmic Victorian woman),
• it may be punished as a crime (as in the homosexual Rwala Bedouin),
• it may be treated as a disease or disorder (as in the nonorgasmic modern woman)."
- Erwin J. Haeberle (Sexologist)
"The only unnatural sex is that which you cannot perform." - Alfred Kinsey (Sex Researcher)
Laws, Richard. O'Donohue, William. Sexual Deviance: Theory, Assessment, and Treatment. New York: The Guilford Press, 2008.
My work explores sexual deviancy, mostly in the vein of the inherent guilt of sexual feeling as a Catholic or someone who was raised Catholic. Even if a sex act is considered "normal" by modern standards, it is unavoidably deviant when viewed through a religious lens. Investigating these boundaries has become a fairly regular component in my work.
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