Sexology borrowed its biological-difference methods directly from racial science

Evidence

Similarly, racist scholars had long conceived of Blacks as criminals, and of Blackness as a physiological abnormality, debating all along about whether it was congenital. “Sexologists,” inspired by scholars of race, were already using the comparative anatomy of women’s bodies to concoct biological differences between sexualities at the turn of the century. — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 740

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• XREF: Shows the same mechanism Kendi identifies for race — manufactured biological difference justifying hierarchy — spreading from race to sexuality. Strong support for the book’s core thesis that racist ideas are produced to justify power. — connects to: Brain-weight comparison studies adjusted their methods to always favor whichever sex they predicted — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 103