Stefan Vogler. Sorting Sexualities: Expertise and the Politics of Legal Classification. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021. 280 p. Paperback, $30 (ISBN: 9780226776767)

What is classification? its purpose and impact in different institutional contexts? can those impacts add up to our material realities? Sorting Sexualities encourages us ask these questions when we think about describe sexuality. This slim but dense volume delves deeply into the ways that sexuality seen understood legal settings. In doing so, it leads reader confront contradiction between common social understanding of as a purely personal aspect one’s identity, fact state has claimed significant level power settings define what “normal” “deviant” State interests have enormous on lives whose scrutinized controlled by definitions.