#leadlicking

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“Precisely what is wrong with the boy licking the train? Many things are wrong: one, the boy licking Thomas the Tank Engine is playing improperly with the phallic toy, not thrusting it forward along the floor but putting it in his mouth. Such late-exhibited orality bears the sheen of that “retarded” stage of development known as homosexuality” (Chen 271).

Chen, Mel Y. "Toxic Animacies, Inanimate Affections." GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 17, no. 2-3 (2011)