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Assignment 7

I read Part 1 of The History of Sexuality by Michel Foucault. Part one described the Victorian regime and how we continue to be dominated by it today. The seventeenth century was a time of direct gestures, shameless discourses and open transgression. This was a period of when bodies “made a display of themselves.” Sexuality had been careful confined during the Victorian bourgeoisie. When talking about the subject of sex, you had to be silent about it. The conjugal couple had imposed themselves as models and enforced the norm, truth, and reserved the right to speak while retaining the principle of secrecy. During this time. children were not allowed to have sex, talk about sex or even hear sexual comments or acts. These were some of the characteristics that were features attributes to repression. The topic of sex was not allowed to be spoken of during this tine. If it was necessary for sexual acts, the brothels and the mental hospitals would be places they can be freely with their sexuality. Only in these places would sex have the right. In other places it would be considered taboo, nonexistence and silent. If sex is so rigorously repressed, it is because it is incompatible with a general and intensive work imperative. The demand for sexual freedom had become very popular and the right to speak about it by gaining knowledge from it. A question I have after reading The History of Sexuality by Michel Foucault, was why having sex and speaking about anything sex related was such a sin and banned against? Another question I have after reading this article was, why did sexual repression come about in there first place? How did it establish?