More cheery stuff for this holiday season, sorry, it's just what I have been working on of late. More about sex and racism.

"To some scholars, the racial/ethnic struggling within visible in the global sex industry highly resembles the exoticist movement of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries "labelling the anthropological Other as exotic legitimated treating the peoples of the 'third world' as fit to be despised- destroyed even...while concurrently constituting them as projections of western fantasies" From Exoticism in the Enlightenment by G.S. Rousseau and Roy Porter. In Global Sex Workers: Rights, Resistance, Redefinition by Jo Doezema and Kamala Kempadoo, p. 10

"A man in prison will, without injury to his masculinity, rape another inmate who is young, thin, fair, and vulnerable enough to be taken for 'feminine', a soldier will sometimes rape not only women and children but also conquered men to assert himself as conqueror."

Florence Rush, in Don't Tell: The Sexual Abuse of Boys by Michel Dorais, p. 114

"When a child is forced at an early age to respond to the sexual needs of others, the development of (the child's) personal identity is compromised...A child's being reduced to the rank of sexual object to be used by an adolescent or adult will ultimately introduce a doubt...: could it be, perhaps, that this alone is what (the child) is for? In this way, (children) may learn to concentrate on the sexual needs and desires of others to the exclusion of (their) own "

 Dorais p111