Michael Foucault's History Of Sexuality

Michael Foucault’s History of Sexuality explains how today’s norm follow the idea of the Victorian Regime and why sexuality is repressed due to the norm. Before the Victorian Regime, people were open to sex and had less secrecy. During the 17th century, people enjoyed having sex for the fun. Eventually, people decided that sex should be sacred and it became something that people enjoyed but should not be talked upon in public. Sex was becoming more serious and sexuality was becoming more private into the homes. Couples were having sex with the goals of reproduction. The couple’s secrecy changed the norm of society. Adults were not allowed to talk about sex especially in front of children because children should not know about sex. The society was censoring and repressing sexuality and thus became the

Sex was something that people could talk about and openly have fun doing it. I think it’s crazy how norms can be changed due to leading actions such as repression. Like Foucault stated, repression help with the growth of capitalism and in a sense, it was a power that caused secrecy in a society. I don’t know how a society without repression might look like. The idea of a society or norm without repression is strange because we were born into a society that repression already exists. The media, our parents, and all adults prevented children from learning anything about sex due to censorship and/or repression. Movies with nudity or anything vulgar are forced to put a tag that states “Rated R” to let people know that it’s not suitable for children. I think repression is just a way to keep people intact because it is an unspoken rule that created our society. People follow this rule of secrecy of sexuality, even though it is not stated that we couldn’t talk about it in public. In a sense, these rules are a way to confining people from becoming unnormal and make them more