Homosexuality Is a Humiliation Fetish

In his book Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World, written with two clinical psychiatrists, René Girard developed a theory of homosexuality. Only one small section was dedicated to it, and the authors fenced their hypothesis with a claim that it accounts for “at least some of the types of homosexuality.” However, to me, their theory makes a whole load of sense, and I would hypothesize that it can be used as a basis for interpreting not only all homosexuality but all other sexual deviance.

In short, Girard stipulates that homosexuality arises when the sexual attention of the subject shifts from the opposite-sex object to the same-sex rival. It is essentially a result of sexual rivalry pushed to the extreme, and Girard states that “all sexual rivalry is structurally homosexual.” Furthermore, he associates the propensity to end up in this homosexual extreme to sadomasochism, or rather maso-sadism, as he redefines it, and which in turn he understands as an obsession with rivals-o…