Why is power innate but sex not? Part 5 of Foucault’s History of Sexuality focuses on different power structures, namely, how there was a shift from power from blood (in purity and spillage) to sex. I was relieved, first of all, when he finally acknowledged the sex act itself; that sex is a social construct […]
Museum of Sex, Norton, Weeks I was struck by the condom exhibit at the Museum of Sex for two reasons. One, despite Talmudic law that prohibits the “waste” of semen, the two most largely used types of condoms – animal skin and latex – were invented by Jews (one American, one German.) This is as […]
Big Brother is watching Stephen Dedalus I found Foucault’s discussion of the Repressive Hypothesis (the second half of Part 2) to be the most intriguing. Foucault states that “Educators and doctors combated children’s onanism like an epidemic that needed to be eradicated,” but, rather than fixate on actually abolishing masturbation, those in a position of […]
