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A review by naiapard
The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction by Michel Foucault
allow yourself to ask “why sex was associated with sin for such a long time”
There were things that I have never once considered.
More specifically, the way the idea of sexuality is perceived by the “western” societies that inherited Victorian views/traditions of the imperial prude. The 19thC was obsessive in its deals with sex-that`s way they went overboard with restraining and limiting. it Sex was on their minds, it was all they were talking about, how to limit it, how to control it.
I learned that the development of capitalism (17C) coincided with the advent of sexual repression, and as a result, that sex is “incompatible with a general and intensive work imperative”
The belief that in order for a country to be rich it needs to have a lot of citizens—rose with the need of manpower, to work in industries. The consequence is that the interest of politics moves from marriages of interest to the “each individual`s use of sex”
The caveat that I would have with this particular text is one example that is employed. I didn`t get the point he was trying to make with the little girl and the farm worker and the “curled milk” anecdote.