The History of Sexuality. Volume 1. The Will to Knowledge: Michel Foucault

We talk about sex more and more, but are we more liberated? The first part of Michel Foucault`s landmark account of our evolving attitudes in the west shows how the nineteenth century, far from suppressing sexuality, led to an explosion of discussion about sex as a separate sphere of life for study and examination. As a result, he argues, we are making a science of sex which is devoted to the analysis of desire rather than the increase of pleasure.