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Article History

Received: 19 January 2026

Accepted: 25 June 2026

First Online: 24 July 2026

Declarations

Competing interests: The authors declare no competing interests.

Endnotes: 1 Snorton’s visual objects are not photographs but medical illustrations from the late nineteenth century. We understand them as being part of the same visual history of sexuality, provoking discomforts comparable to sexological photography. 2 While this article’s conceptualization of ‘waiting’ for the queer subject of sexological history is derived from Didi-Huberman, it is indebted to a particularly Muñozian vocabulary of the ‘not yet’ of queerness, as in Cruising utopia: The then and there of queer futurity (Muñoz ).