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Foucault's The Repressive Hy

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Foucault in the chapter, The Repressive Hypthesis, describes and deconstructs the predominant thought that industial/western society repressed sex from the 17th century and on. In attempting to repress sex, social and political structures (church, criminal justice system, school, etc) brought sex to the forefront of people’s language and minds. By “dissemination and implantation of polymorphous sexualities” Foucault is referring to the social and political institutions and their ability to essentially create and solidy new sexualities in the conscious of a society. In The Repressive Hypothesis, Foucault employs a number of rich examples to bolster his argument for the relationship between power and sex. One example he uses to illustrate “dissemination

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