>>44 Even if heterosexual attraction functions identically to homosexual attraction, our society doesnt treat it as such. Existing in a society where your sexual orientation is deemed as dirty and degenerate causes repression and neurosis, which can be interesting to explore in literature. Confessions of a Mask, for example, is mostly about Mishima's struggle against his larp of heterosexuality. Because the topic of existing as a homosexual in a heteronormative society was seldom explored at the time, Mishima's contributions were regarded as a fundamental part of the early body of gay literature.
Even if heterosexual attraction functions identically to homosexual attraction, our society doesnt treat it as such. Existing in a society where your sexual orientation is deemed as dirty and degenerate causes repression and neurosis, which can be interesting to explore in literature. Confessions of a Mask, for example, is mostly about Mishima's struggle against his larp of heterosexuality. Because the topic of existing as a homosexual in a heteronormative society was seldom explored at the time, Mishima's contributions were regarded as a fundamental part of the early body of gay literature.