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Cecco, J. de
Interview
Paidika 3 (1988)
"Academicians should not make their first priority political whitewash; it
should be the illumination of the phenomena that they turn their attention
to. It would be much better and maybe ultimately better serve political
purposes, if we tried to render reliable accounts of what is going on in
people's sexual lives, without yielding to the pressure of saying, 'What is
it that we should be telling the public that will make them more sympathetic?
I think that is where truth and politics part company."
De CECCO goes on to say, " the sexual identity categories are very crude, and
tend to veer more and more way from sexual feelings and acts and become
entities in themselves. .....So what do you replace sexual identity with? You
don't have to replace it with anything. You replace it with people's lives,
and the part that sexuality plays in those lives.