Discourse On Children's Sex Foucault

Foucault begins by iterating how the modern age supposedly imposed silence about sex. If examined closely, however, we find that there is actually an explosion of discourse regarding sex. There were still restrictions on where, when and among whom such things could be said. While language was more discrete, the effects and correlations of sex were pursued in every detail: everything had to be told. Desire rather than the act became the primary evil. Transforming desire into discourse became required of every Christian, not just monks. Literature required that sex and its accompaniments be told in every detail. The technique of turning sex into discourse was supported and relayed by power mechanisms of analysis and classification. These mechanisms were proclaimed publicly necessary (even if personally disapproved).

Analysis regarding the determinations and effects at the border of biological and economic realms. Interventions regarding population size made sexual conduct into economic and political behavior. Talk of sex and children was not silenced but displaced into a new regime of discourses saying things in different ways, by people indifferent roles for different goals. Schools have multiplied forms of discourse on children’s sex, established points of implantation, coded contents and speakers, and generally intensified intervention linked with multiplied discourses. Children’s sex became an area of contention: constituted as a problem. Other areas began to produce discourses: medicine, psychiatry. criminal justice, other social controls made people aware of sex as a danger inciting further discourses about it. The very claim that sex is outside of discourse and that talk about it breaks its secret is just what needs to be examined. These discourses make sex into a secret to be