Too much talk


The central issue, then ... is not to determine whether one says yes or no to sex ... but to account for the fact that it is spoken about, to discover who does the speaking, the positions and viewpoints from which they speak, the institutions which prompt people to speak about it and which store and distribute the things that are said. What is at issue, briefly, is ... the way in which sex is "put into discourse."

—Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality, An Introduction, p. 11. New York: Random House, 1978.

posted @ 05:20 PM on Thu - July 15, 2004 remark! Email |  as quoted:
before I said ...  but more recently: 

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