HISC 27 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Hubris, Bsc Young Boys, Michel Foucault
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Sexual acts were invariably discussed or represented as part of a larger theological, metaphysical, or ethical context (3) sowing the field by helen king. Artemidoros here raises two further themes relevant to ancient sexology: the image of woman as earth, the relationship between pleasure and labour. The attitudes and behaviors publicly displayed by the citizens of athens tend to portray sex not as a collective enterprise in which two or more persons jointly engage but rather as an action performed by one person upon another. Athenian society indicated how sex is represented by those utterances and actions of free adult males that were intended to be overheard and witnessed by other free adult males. Sex is not only polarizing, however; it is also hierarchical. Sexual activity, moreover, is thematized as domination: the relation between the. Active and the passive sexual partner is thought of as the same kind of relation as that obtaining between social superior and social inferior.
