Lost Girl places overt sexuality into public discourse to problematize casual sex as dangerous, deadly, and illicit. In addition, the desire to term Bo a “succubus”, which is as a subspecies of Fae, indicates the urgency society experiences to classify and analyze sexual behaviors, especially with the advent of medicine and psychiatry’s invested interest in sex acts. On page 43, Foucault writes, “Nothing that went into his total composition was unaffected by his sexuality…It was consubstantial with him, less of a habitual sin than as a singular nature…The sodomite had been a temporary aberration; the homosexual was now a species.” Bo is singularly defined by her title as a succubus. What once may have been simply problematic or “sinful” behavior is now a pathological classification entered discourse with the specific purpose of marking a succubus as abnormal and dangerous.
The pathologizing effect of creating classifications of human being based on sexual behavior is important because it does show that some of these terms stem from the medical and psychiatric community. This is an element of the show that is demonstrated when Bo is studied at great lengths by the Fae’s in-house doctor, who, not entirely by coincidence, eventually …show more content…
Gay marriage is now legal, homosexual couples are featured on television as parental figures, as seen on the television series, The Fosters (2013), and the public is seemingly more willing to accept same-sex couples. This aspect of modern-life is highlighted in Lost Girl by never terming Bo as “bisexual” or drawing the slightest amount of attention to her tendency to have relationships with both men and women. She is simply “Bo,” sexual-orientation aside. In an interview with GayCalgary Magazine, Rachel Skarsten explains what she feels distinguished Lost Girl in its approach to romantic
The pathologizing effect of creating classifications of human being based on sexual behavior is important because it does show that some of these terms stem from the medical and psychiatric community. This is an element of the show that is demonstrated when Bo is studied at great lengths by the Fae’s in-house doctor, who, not entirely by coincidence, eventually …show more content…
Gay marriage is now legal, homosexual couples are featured on television as parental figures, as seen on the television series, The Fosters (2013), and the public is seemingly more willing to accept same-sex couples. This aspect of modern-life is highlighted in Lost Girl by never terming Bo as “bisexual” or drawing the slightest amount of attention to her tendency to have relationships with both men and women. She is simply “Bo,” sexual-orientation aside. In an interview with GayCalgary Magazine, Rachel Skarsten explains what she feels distinguished Lost Girl in its approach to romantic