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Assignment 7

Foucault recounts some of the history and some concerns towards the discourse of sex in his book “history of sexuality”. During the seventh and eighteen hundreds sex was not a topic someone will address openly mostly due to religious believes or even law. Foucault uses the word censorship to describe the way sex was presented to the society. He argues that sex should be a secret because if a society was so concern about there should be even more confidence in exposing the topic than hidden it. However, sex was key for the procreation of humanity which benefits an entire country in order to be powerful and rich. For a population to grow the use of sex was a must, but it continued to be repressed due to a set of limitation established by political, economic, biological determinations about sex. As time goes by the censorship of sex does not get any better, instead it changes the form by which is delivered to the people. New methods and strategies are developed to lower the shame individuals have to address this topic which is of such importance for a society. Also, he mentions how school faculties were so alert on the behavior of students pointing towards any sexual conduct but still didn’t spoke to them openly about sex. If they believed sex is something dangerous, not right in the eyes of a judge for children to have sex then why don’t they take action and educate them. The sense of power is intervenes in the liberation of speaking about sex without any shame or prohibition. Kids are more curious to know what is the reality when they are being overprotected and not allowed to know and experience it themselves. Therefore, the ideologies created to place sex discourse as blur and discrete as possible can make the secrets of sex of each individual more public and uncovered. Now my questions are if sex was to be openly discussed would it have real effects on overpopulation, maybe parenthood issues  as back in the day they were so concerned about it and as they still do but just in a more discrete way ? And what can are some ways in which sex discourse can be equilibrate and managed in a society?