Consuming Passions:

Some Thoughts on History, Sex, and Free Enterprise

by D. A. Clarke

This essay was published originally in the book Unleashing Feminism: Critiquing Lesbian Sadomasochism in the Gay Nineties, Copyright 1993 by Irene Reti, Herbooks, P.O. Box 7467, Santa Cruz, CA 95061. Write to HerBooks if you wish to order copies of this book, or for the HerBooks catalog of lesbian and feminist titles.

• Choosing Sides
• Welcome to Fantasy Island
• Obscure Objects of Desire
• There's No Business Like Big Business
• The Invisible Hand at Work and Play
• And the party on the left, is now the party on the right . . .
• Armed Camp: Gay Male Militarism
• Our Masters' Toys
• Those Who Do Not Remember the Past . . .
• Political Correctness
• Keeping Our Priorities (too) Straight
• I Know It When I See It
• The Pepsi Generation
• No Easy Way to be Free
• Signs of Life
• An Army of Lovers . . . ?
• Epilogue: A Kinder, Gentler, More Civilised World?
• References
• Acknowledgements
• About this document ...

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