The Intransigence of Orientalist Desires: A Reply to Arno Schmitt
In defense of his magnum opus, Sexuality and Eroticism among Males in Moslem Societies (1992), Arno Schmitt, who coedited the book with Jehoeda Sofer and contributed three chapters ranging from twenty to four pages of text (the third chapter had a whopping eight pages), tells us in his unkind, albeit incoherent, response to my essay “Re-Orienting Desire” (2002) about the topics he covered in his twenty-page chapter.
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