Is it the case that our natural sexualities have been so repressed that the media now finds it marketable to place it at the fore front. In about every movie as well as many sitcomes there is a sex scene or some hints of a sexual act taking place. And what does society end up asking itself: “Was is nessissary or done tastefully?” Sex is such a taboo in our culture today that parents can’t even speak to their children about it without in some way feeling as though they are betraying their child’s innoscence.
However Foucault notices that in the nineteenth century, children were not seen as untouched by sexuality. In fact Foucault notices how society in attempt to police all notions of sexuality even took it as far as to surpress any hint of sexuality in children, right down to their “seductive” laughter. This idea of programming children as a tool of deffurance is still used today, though we think of our children as having a blank slate when it comes to sexuality. Instead of a reprogramming, we deter our children from sex by never speaking about it. By answering questions about sex in a round about fairy tale way. This act alone almost perpetuates what Foucault was saying about changing sex from an act to a discourse.
We have mastered the art of explaining sex without actually using any references to the act alone, thus the idea of ludeness and tastefull mastery of sexual explination has seeped into our everyday life. When there is a very graphic sexual scene in a m ovie the audience asks themselves: “Was this done in good taste, or was this a lude and outrageously inflamed way of using sex?” Sex has become a tool of shock factor, instead of a depiction of desire, love, or physical bonding.
Sexuality has become a door way to the unconscience in many phsycological fields. That perversively a person’s sexual nature is in a direct link to a person’s unconsious desires. In the unconsious mind there are no boundaries, and one is not hampered by societies moral and silence about sexuality. Has this idea of a sexual discorse pushed a natural act back into the crevise of our minds, that can only be fully tapped into in the comfort of our dreams?
