ABSTRACT
Nongay critics typically reject the notion as reading too much into texts. Continuists critiqued the dominant, Foucauldian paradigm on a variety of grounds: contesting interpretations of particular texts; presenting overlooked evidence; disputing the conclusions of authoritative theorists and scholars. Given the universality, or near-universality, of linking sexuality to gender, and making them both intelligible at least in part through mockery, shame, stricture, punishment, taboo, and the like, sexual secrecy may also be universal. Indeed, given the connection of sex to reproduction and reproduction to religion and spirituality, even approved forms of sex are often shrouded in secrecy, as feelings and behavior that are, or ought to be, sacred and mysterious. Identity has been doubly targeted by differentists, who portray similarists as not only seeking identical versions of themselves in the past, but also ascribing to these past selves fully fledged gay and lesbian identities.
