Evolution Of Sexuality Analysis

Since the advent of civilization, society has tended to experiment with codes that regulate human morality in conformance with established norms and expectations (Halperin, 1990). Of particular interests to societal institutions is sexuality, which for the better part of the centuries leading to the 20th century has been governed by codes drawn from religion and civil laws (Foucault, 1979). Society has continuously normalized heterosexism as the appropriate form of sexuality that should be backed by laws that punish those that diverge from it. Indeed, heteronormativity is founded on the assumptions that only male and female genders should exist and complement each other in a conjugal relationship (Butler, 1990). This hegemony has made it relatively …show more content…
The relational character of power relationships is what makes it possible for revolutions to occur. It is important to analyze the concept of evolution of sexuality from the concept of power from the force relations as opposed to law and sovereignty as is the general norm. The growth of perversions or the explosion of different forms of sexualities as it were, is a product of encroachment on a type of power on bodies and their pleasures (Foucault, 1979). Therefore, it is only fair to note that the intricate relationship between power and pleasures on the subject of licit and illicit sexuality led to the proliferation of human …show more content…
Power in such acts plays the role of a discourse if the power of the latter to produce that which it mentions is linked to performativity. For example, a judge exercises power by citing the law that he applies. Essentially, it is the power of the citation that gives the performativity it binding power and authority over the situation. It follows then that, the term “queer” can be considered a source of the status of force and opposition to stability and variability within the confines of performativity. The term queer has been used on one sole purpose of shaming or insulting those it refers to in relation to sexuality. For example, if a performative such as “I now pronounce you….” In marriage operates to advance the heterosexualisation of the social bond between a man and a woman, “queer” may be used to define or refer to those who oppose the social form or those who intend to define the accepted social form outside the hegemonic social order or sanction (Richardson, et al., 2006). Surprisingly, the younger generation of lesbians and gays might adopt the term “queer” as their identity and a tool to advance the ideology of rebellion against the institutionalized and a performativist political tone that uses the term to pathologize sexual behaviors considered taboo. This theorization forms the solid base upon which the queer theory is founded.