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Michel Foucault's "The History of Sexuality Vol.1" (Part 1/2)

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Foucault's Body and Pleasures

In Foucault's erotic art truth is drawn from pleasure itself understood as a practice and accumulated as experience. In the West we don't have this kind of our soarotica or attachment of truth to pleasure itself so bodies and pleasure are really what interests him. The rallying point for the counter attack against the deployment of sexuality are not to be sex desire but bodies and pleasures, he says.

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