Michel Foucault's multi-volume analysis of how sexuality became an object of scientific knowledge in modernity — arguing that the Victorian era did not repress sex but produced an explosion of discourses about it.
The repressive hypothesis is wrong: modernity did not repress sexuality but proliferated discourses about it. Sexuality as a concept is a modern invention — a construction through medical, psychiatric, legal, and religious discourse. Biopower: modern states exercise power over populations through the management of bodies and reproduction.
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