JAPAN 162 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Michel Foucault
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Censorship was a key component, shaped how topics were worded and presented. Created a paradox, where sexuality flourished under repression. Diverged into multiple fields of study, for different purposes. Sex turned very physical in its descriptions, especially in literature and theatre (e. g. my secret life) People would tell one another about the sexual escapades. Early 1800s, people were excited to discuss sex. The way adult-adults handle sex is different than how adult-child handle sex. Adult supervision at all points of a school was to prevent students from. Experimental school, sexuality was welcomed and not judged. No unseemly laughter intervened to disturb them--except from the very ranks of an adult audience more childish than the children themselves (29) It may well be true that adults and children themselves were deprived of a certain way of speaking about sex, a mode that was disallowed as being too direct, crude, or coarse.
