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There has been so much action in the past,” said D.H. Lawrence, “especially sexual action, a wearying repetition over and over, without a correspondin...more

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What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?

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Through Sade and Goya, the Western world received the possibility of transcending its reason in violence....

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In actual fact. The manifold sexualities - those which appear with the different ages (sexualities of the infant or the child), those which become fix...more

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For was this transformation of sex into discourse not governed by the endeavor to expel from reality the forms of sexuality that were not amenable to ...more

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The nineteenth century and our own have been rather the age of multiplication: a dispersion of sexualities, a strengthening of their disparate forms, ...more

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Through the various discourses, legal sanctions against minor perversions were multiplied; sexual irregularity was annexed to mental illness; from chi...more

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People will be surprised at the eagerness with which we went aboutpretending to rouse from its slumber a sexuality which every­thing-our discourses, o...more

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Nature, keeping only useless secrets, had placed within reach and in sight of human beings the things it was necessary for them to know.

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Among the mutations that have affected the knowledge of things ... only one, which began a century and a half ago ... has allowed the figure of man to...more