For as long as exclusive and active heterosexuality has been considered “normal” and morally right, every type of sexual existence outside it—including those who have a “self-contained sexuality”—has been considered abnormal and even immoral by those invested in maintaining the status quo. Under cisheteropatriarchal systems, all nonheterosexual sexual identities and behaviors have always been understood as being part of the same looming threat against heterosexuality and the society it upholds.
