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"We must at the same time conceive of sex without the law, and power without the king."

"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?"

“There was scarcely a malady or physical disturbance to which the nineteenth century did not impute at least some degree of sexual etiology” (65)

“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)

why are we so worried about the sex of children

“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.

yesss foucault u slay