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In part four chapter four of Foucault’s text he brings up the “technology of sex” which he explains to be the transformation of the treatment of sex through the centuries. By the “technology of sex” Foucault means that the discussion of sex has stepped out into the spotlight. People are asking more questions, being more open about it and to the extent that the state is even involved in it. Through pedagogy, medicine, and economics sex had stopped being a private manner and become something that should be discussed. Foucault also states that sex had stop being mostly about religion in which it was almost treated as a sin. No one was to talk about it, it was supposed to stay in the dark and was only to be known by the two people in the relationship. In the chapter he says that it had been put under surveillance and that new questions and research of the topic expanded in three areas. It opened questions of of child sexuality, in medicine how it functioned particularly in women and its relation to birth. For centuries sex had been repressed and no one was to talk about it since it was viewed as a sin. Foucault calls it the technology of sex since during this time from the 18th century to the 19th century it was really being explored and made better by better understanding it. I believe that since technology is always something that it explored to help our world Foucault relates it to sex in this way. I believe that it is important to bring this subject into the light and that it should not be avoided by the people. To help us understand it he writes about the different ways it was explored and how the state went about handling it.