No amount of fisting, fucking, fellatio, cunninglus or S/M…actually shifts the meaning of marriage within the state itself.
My review of The Marrying Kind?: Debating Same-Sex Marriage Within the Lesbian and Gay Movement is just out in In These Times. An excerpt:
There are suggestions here that the very specter of gay and lesbian and queer sex might trouble the normality of marriage, but surely no amount of fisting, fucking, fellatio, cunninglus or S/M—all of which are regularly and copiously engaged in by straight couples across the political spectrum, even if often covertly—actually shifts the meaning of marriage within the state itself.