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A
BRIEF
HISTORYOFTHEHISTORYOFSEXUALITY
Carole
S.
Vance
(1984:
17)
F
LI
EIE
...
sexuality
may
be
thoughtabout,experienced,andactedondiffer-entlyaccordingtoage,class,ethnicity,physical
ability,
sexualorientationandpreference,religion,andregion.
'WhenIfirstbegan
writing
about
thehistory
of
sexualityIwasfond
of
usingaphrasefromtheAmericanhistorian,VernBullough:
that
sex
in
historywasa
'virgin
field'
[l}.
This
mayhavebeena
dubious
punbutit
wasusefulinunderlininganimportant,
if
oftenoverlooked,reality.'Sexuality'was
much
talked
about
and
written
about
but
ourhistor
icalknowledge
about
it
remained
pretty
negligible.Those
would-be
colonizerswhoventured
into
thefieldtendedeither
to
offertransculturalgeneralizations
('the
history
of
a
long
warfarebetween
the
dangerousandpowerfuldrives
andthe
systems
of
taboosand
inhibitionswhichman
haserectedtocontrol
them',
Rattray
Taylor1953:13);ortosubsume
the
subjectundermoreneutralandacceptablelabels('marriage'and'morals'especially).Sexualityseemedmarginaltothebroadacres
of
orthodoxhistory.
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