
Michel Foucault's "The History of Sexuality Vol.1" (Part 1/2)
Theory & Philosophy
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The Confession of Sex
The ways of sex were obscure it was elusive by nature its energy and its mechanisms escaped observation. The confession especially in the religious sense was a thing that was done so that a person could essentially forget about the bad things that they did because they knew they were going to be forgiven by this higher power God. Foucault says we must ask ourselves whether since the 19th century the scientia cientia sexualis under the guise of its decent positivism has not functioned at least at a certain extent as an arsearotica itself.
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