§ 175

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In einer eMail vom 07.09.00 04:08:51 (MEZ) - Mitteleurop. Sommerzeit schreibt 
lycidas2 at earthlink.net:

<< These poor guys are deep trouble, not because they are gay, >>

§ 175 was abolished in Germany in 1996 or 97, before there existed a "soft" 
version of it that homosexuality among adults is allowed... 175 in its "old" 
version that forbidded homosexuality in any shape was abolished in the early 
seventies...now we've got no "specific" paragraph for gays/lesbians but the 
"normal" paragraph that sex is allowed with people older than 16.
I think that the Dora gays "love"  sadomasochism and oppression 'cause their 
unconscious is obsessed by it... the so called "sado-anarchism" is an 
ironical allusion to it. As Foucault said: you cannot leave power if you want 
you are always "in" the power structure... so the "liberation" is another 
kind of power... the unconscious is obsessed also by HISTORY (HE-STORY, 
HYSTERY) so there is no way out... BTW, Foucault said in an interview two 
years before his death (1982) that the only way out is a "fluid" power 
structure, the exchange of roles; he recommended sado-masochism as an 
arrangement of a fluid power structure, and he spoke about his experiences in 
the hardcore gay scene in L. A. in the 70's. But this isn't an option for the 
Dora gays I think... Pynchon sounds here very pessimistic if I remember right.

kwp