The question of the gender of perversion stems from a necessarily social issue. Polymorphous, pathological and structural perversions are the three approaches we focus on here to examine the notions of sexuation, perversion and their intersections. Is perversion gendered? Is it specifically inherent to male or female styles? Can we talk about male perversion on the one hand and female perversion on the other?
Perversion; sexuation; femininity; psychoanalysis