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“Pleasure and power do not cancel or turn back against one another; they seek out, overlap, and reinforce one another. They are linked together by complex mechanisms and devices of excitation and incitement” (Foucault 48)
— Apr 07, 2026 03:26AM
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is on page 137 of 176
“It is because power is situated and exercised at the level of life, the species, the race, and the large-scale phenomena of population”
— May 06, 2026 10:15AM
ally douglas?
is on page 91 of 176
"We must at the same time conceive of sex without the law, and power without the king."
— Apr 08, 2026 05:32AM
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is on page 71 of 176
"Must we conclude that our scientia sexualis is but an extraordinarily subtle form of ars erotica, and that it is the Western, sublimated version of that seemingly lost tradition?"
— Apr 07, 2026 07:01AM
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is on page 65 of 176
“There was scarcely a malady or physical disturbance to which the nineteenth century did not impute at least some degree of sexual etiology” (65)
— Apr 07, 2026 06:44AM
ally douglas?
is on page 28 of 176
why are we so worried about the sex of children
— Apr 06, 2026 08:05PM
ally douglas?
is on page 26 of 176
“This was the first time that a society had affirmed, in a constant way, that its future and its fortune were tied not only to the number and the uprightness of its citizens, to their marriage rules and family organization, but to the manner in which each individual made use of his sex.”
great, so they made us into prudes.
— Apr 06, 2026 07:59PM
great, so they made us into prudes.
