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DOI 10.1007/s11186-007-9059-4
One of the tasks of sociology is to determine how the social world constitutes
the biological libido, an undifferentiated impulse, as a specific social libido.
–Bourdieu 1994:78
In the sociology of sexuality, desire is an elephant that sits upon the scholar’s
desk, seen by all but addressed by few. This is particularly curious given that the
discipline rests, implicitly, upon a desiring subject. In fact, present day scholars of
sexuality have a large, rich, and diverse body of literature from which to conceive
sexual identities, practices, communities, politics and polemics, but comparatively
little by way of a sustained, systematic analysis of desire itself. If Epstein (1991) was
A. I. Green (*)
Sociology Department, University of Toronto, 725 Spadina Avenue, Toronto, ON, Canada M5S 2J4
e-mail: adamisaiah.green@utoronto.ca