In Sexual Hegemony Christopher Chitty traces the fivehundred year history of capitalist sexual relations by excavating the class dynamics of the bourgeoisies attempts to regulate homosexuality. Tracking the politicization of male homosexuality in Renaissance Florence Amsterdam Paris and London between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries as well as twentiethcentury New York City Chitty shows how sexuality became a crucial dimension of the accumulation of capital and a technique of bourgeois rule. Whether policing male sodomy during the Medici rule in Florence or accusing the French aristocracy of monstrous sexuality in the wake of the French Revolution the bourgeoisie weaponized both sexual constraint and sexual freedom in order to produce and control a reliable and regimented labor class and subordinate it to civil society and the state.