The oppressed will break out

After reading Foucault's "The History of Sex," I felt a common idea is proven yet again. When people are opressed and forbidden to not do something, it will cause sme of those people to act out in a worse fashion than if they had been allowed to behave the way they wanted to in the first place. When sex is translated through three main ideas, "canonical law, the Christian pastoral, and civilian law" you know something is wrong. Sex should be a bond between two people who have feelings for eachother, yet in the Victorian Age, even a married couple must use sex for procreation or on certain days and no other reason. What a waste of sexuality.

When boundries are placed to these extents, it makes some people lash out in other ways. Foucault writes, "Whence the setting apart of the "unnatural" as a specific dimension in teh field of sexuality. this kind of activity assumed an autonomy with regard to the other condemned forms such as adultery or rape (and the latter were condemned less and less)." Because individuals are taught that sex is a dirty act, they begin finding other ways to please themselves. This is where it goes wrong, had society been taught that sex was a natural act, one wouldn't find other more disgusting ways of pleasing themselves, such as rape, adultery, sodomy and incest.