...for surveillance, rather than simply a repressed object: "What is peculiar to modern societies ... is not that they consigned sex to a shadow existence,...that they dedicated themselves to speaking of it ad infinitum, while exploiting it as the secret." Foucault argues that sexuality is constituted as a secret...

...same time difficult and necessary, dangerous and precious to divulge? . . . What is peculiar to modern societies, in fact, is not that they consigned sex...that they dedicated themselves to speaking of it ad infinitum, while exploiting it as the secret.46 The "repressive hypothesis," in other words, does not...

...dangerous and precious to divulge" (pp. 34-35). "What is peculiar to modern societies," he writes, "is not that they consigned sex to a shadow existence,...that they dedicated themselves to speaking of it ad infinitum while exploiting it as the secret" (p. 35). Like Bluebeard's secret, part of the nature of...

...his modeling of contradiction, particularly of the logic applied to sex: "What is peculiar to modern societies, in fact, is not that they consigned sex to a shadow existence, but they dedicated themselves to speaking of it ad infmitum while exploiting it as the secret" (Foucault,...

...a thing which stubbornly shows itself, but one which always hides. . . . What is peculiar to modern societies, in fact, is not that they consigned sex...that they dedicated themselves to speaking of it ad infinitum, while exploiting it as the secret" (The History of Sexuality, vol. 1 [New York: Random House,...

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...indispensable to the endlessly proliferating economy of the discourse on sex. What is peculiar to modern societies, in fact, is not that they consigned sex...that they dedicated themselves to speaking of it ad infinitum, while exploiting it as the secret. Breaking the rules of marriage or seeking strange pleasures...

...this practice suggest that it is a common feature of 'modern societies': 'What is peculiar to modern societies, in fact, is not that they consigned sex...that they dedicated themselves to speaking of it ad infinitum, while exploiting it as the secret' (1981:35). The secret' discussed among the foreigners...

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...one can see the poet prefiguring what Foucault believes is characteristic of modern people generally: "not that they consigned sex to a shadow existence,...that they dedicated themselves to speaking of it ad infinitum, while exploiting it as the secret." 27 Byron's first exploitation of his life and secrets...