Originally Posted by
Matt Jackson
I am surprised you say that. At least then these things were confined to seedy back alley nightclubs. You have Desmond Is Amazing/Cuties/etc. being piped straight into American living rooms. Unlimited, free, streaming porn on kids' phones.
The legacy of Magnus Hirschfeld and the Berlin Institute of Sexology lives on and his job is pretty much done. Now, it's no longer subversive leftist academics doing this work, the coastal elite and neoliberalism itself is doing the job on Hirschfeld's behalf.