The History of Sexuality

In part three, Scientia Sexualis, of “The History of sexuality” Foucault focuses on power structures of confession and the medical field, Foucault asks “how did this immense and traditional extortion of the sexual confession come to be constituted in scientific terms?”(Foucault pg. 65) Foucault was concerned with how talking about sex became a specific issue in the sciences, especially the medical sciences. Foucault provides an answer to this question with five critical points. In unpacking…

There are many ideas, movements, events, and people that shaped the history of sex and sexuality in the twentieth century. The three most influential are Margaret Sanger, Alfred Charles Kinsey, and the Homophile Movement. Margaret Sanger made birth control accessible to the public, which altered the way in which people of the twentieth century understood sex. Margaret Sanger’s impact on contemporary society was tremendous. Sanger enabled women to control their fertility and made birth…

thought about media’s portrayal of sex, especially in the United States and Europe, and brings up questions about how this consequently treats women in areas such as the arts. “Sex Yeah” is a feminist critique of western culture’s representation of sexuality and uses over-saturated pop music, play-on words, and masterful lyrics that belittles media and educates the listener at the same time. This song leads to uncomfortable questions that the listener will eventually ask oneself: Is the media…

what is correct and incorrect sexual practice. The inner part of the circle is what is seen as “normal” sex while the outer circle is deemed “abnormal” or bad sex. The inner and outer circle categories are polar opposites of one another treating sexuality in black and white terms that states that there is only one proper way to have sex. This approved form of sex takes form as a heterosexual, monogamous, married couple of the same age who only have sex with only their own bodies in a private…

Introduction Talking to clients about sex and sexuality can be uncomfortable for both the client and the therapist. I never thought about having that conversation until I took this class. I think that it takes a lot of safety and joining so that the client will feel vulnerable to talk about sex and sexuality. As a therapist, I would like to know about my client’s experiences in all aspects of their life which includes sex and sexuality. For this sex history interview, I was able to learn what…

decide to take this class, I thought going to be the history of sex. As the class progressed, I learn about how Gender, Sexuality, and Desire are involved in the many topics we went over in class. This class changes how I see Gender, Sexuality, and Desire and how to look at thing from a different angle. When we learn about the historical account of patriarchy in marriage and as the primary source of Mathew Kuefler book The History of Sexuality Sourcebook to help understand how a patriarchal…

Baartman, was used as a means of inciting fear into European women, by showing them what sexuality could become if it was not properly maintained. Foucault, argues that an increase in the discourse surrounding sex and sexuality is a direct result of power being exercised. Because sexuality is a social construct, it is beneficial for the powers to be, to assert what can be considered to be sexually sound. As Foucault states, as time progressed…

colonial history through the lenses of gender and sexuality. This new perspective when applied to a deep history works concurrently to show how pre-existing gender ideologies impacted the building of global empires and how gender ideologies were formed in colonized spaces, such as India and Africa. In other words, Levine argues that not only do gender topics find a place in the history of the british empire, as it does in all social histories, but that a gendered perspective to explore this…

magical beings. We learn from these stories and the insight they have to offer us in modern day education and observation. We learn how things operated, how people were treated, the views on religion, and sexuality, and in this particular case, women’s sexuality. It is no surprise that in history women are more than likely treated to be treated as second-class beings and seen as less. Women often had no say and little rights to their names or their gender. So it can be perplexing when there are…

With colored women it is important to them to also express how race and womanhood all tie in to one category. It is very important for women to be respected. Both African-American men and women have come across oppression when i comes to race , sexuality or their…