emmanuel reynaud holy virility the social construction of masculinity

mind make up a single indissociable entity― he tries instead to
compensate mentally for what he refuses physically. He does
not allow himself to be led by feelings which rise in him: he
controls and channels them to prevent them from spreading and
causing him to lose control of himself and the situation. He
represses them so much that when he can no longer hold them
in he often becomes violent. His pleasure can then take a
murderous form.
Trapped between his fear of letting himself go and his use of the
penis as a means of appropriation, man does not see that
sexuality could be something other than a struggle for power or
a means of comparison. His general attitude has little to do with
love or pleasure, but much more with hatred, disgust and
jealousy. And its nature is well illustrated in one of the most
democratically shared sentiments among men: the fear of
homosexuality.
Fearful homosexuality
Homosexuality is repressed almost everywhere in the West
since it is considered 'unnatural'. But the concept of nature is an
ideological one. And, in any case, if it is the 'natural' one wants,
homosexuality is a natural form of contraception.
Homosexuality is a form of sexuality without the slightest
excuse of reproduction, and its systematic repression has
always gone hand in hand with other kinds of sexual repression
imposed by Christianity. Thus, in everyday language, sexuality
usually means heterosexuality (signifying whatever one
chooses: insemination, ejaculation or struggle) and fear of
homosexuality can be translated as fear of sexuality. Indeed,
why should a man feel repulsion for a penis when a woman is
not supposed to; why should a woman find a vulva repugnant
when a man claims to find it desirable? Ιn fact, the logic of
Christian sexual repression is elsewhere: it requires everybody
to be revolted by sex organs― their own as much as other
people’s. The repulsion is then exorcised in the institution of
heterosexuality. However, although it is repressed, it is still
always present, and reappears at the slightest opportunity in
different guises: sexual crime, dirty jokes, ascetism, petty
everyday sadism ― and, also, in repulsion when confronted
with the unexorcised image of one's own sex organ reflected in
another person.
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But the fear of homosexuality in man, even if it often breaks
through in these ways, does not stop there. If it were only a