Sexuality is central to the West’s fantasy of the Rest

Evidence

Sexuality was a powerful element in the fantasy which the West constructed, and the ideas of sexual innocence and experience, sexual domination and submissiveness, play out a complex dance in the discourse of “the West and the Rest.” — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 616

Categorization

• XREF: Sexual innocence/domination duality will recur in Orientalist discourse about the harem, the odalisque, and colonial constructions of Eastern sexuality.