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Foucault: Textual Analysis

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This is my very first time reading this text, so I am completely enthralled by the paradox of sexual discourse that Foucault sets up. I always did think of our society as sexually repressed. In fact, medicine and psychiatry has named (entered into writing) so many categories of sexual preferences and behaviors, that it shows our society is incredibly sexual activity, experimental, and perverse. I think the issue is not at all that we are repressed but that sex is managed and oppressed by being associated with unhealthy and negative behavior. I also always assumed that the current state of sex and sexuality stems from religion. While the confession aspect of sex played a huge role in how sexuality exists today, proper sexual conduct was really
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