In Sexual Hegemony, Christopher Chitty traces the five-hundred-year history of capitalist sexual relations. It is, in this sense, a veritable archaeology of the bourgeois class dynamics of regulating homosexuality, but also of the forms of resistance and class struggle within this sphere. Following the traces of the politicization of male homosexuality in Renaissance Florence, in Amsterdam, Paris, and London between the 17th and 19th centuries, as well as in New York City during the 20th century, Chitty shows how sexuality became a crucial dimension of capital accumulation, as well as an important technique of bourgeois domination. Whether through the control of male sodomy during the Medici rule in Florence, or the repeated accusation against the French aristocracy of practicing monstrous sexuality during the French Revolution, the bourgeoisie used both sexual restriction and freedom to produce and control the working classes, transforming them into a reliable tool of production, subordinated to civil society and the state. Thus, by approaching sexuality as a field of social contention, that is, as a privileged space of class struggle, Chitty proposes that we embark on a politics that destroys sexuality as a tool and effect of power.