Is There A History Of Sexuality? By Robert Padgug
According to, "Is There A History of Sexuality?" sex has no history but sexuality does. Sex is natural in order to keep reproducing our species sexual activity has to be performed by a male and a female. Depending on your cultural and religious background it plays a role on individual sexual behavior. Michael Foucault thought of sexuality as, “set of effects produced in bodies, behaviors, and social relations by a certain deployment’ of “a complex political technology.”David M. Halperin author of “Is There A History of Sexuality” and author Robert Padgug both agreed that sexuality is a separate sphere of private existence. It’s viewed differently by different cultures it can be viewed as political, social, economic, religious, and as a thing.
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An adult Athenian male citizen could only have sex with a statutory minor, women of any age, and boys that haven’t hit puberty yet. Males that hadn’t hit puberty was not considered a Athenian citizen yet. French anthropologist Maurice Godelier was supported by the classical Greek record. One of Maurice Godelier statements were, “it is not sexuality which haunts society, but society which haunts the body’s sexuality.”
Sexuality for some is how they identify themselves either heterosexual (male and female) or homosexual (desiring the same sex). Athenaeus which was written seven hundred years later was curious of why Polycrates the tyrant of Samos didn’t send for any boys or women, especially since he was known to be sexually attracted to males. In 92 B.C. it was exceptional for the husband to bring home another woman or male lover. Sometimes even living a completely different life with a male. Even though it was obvious that some males and females were attracted to the same sexit was assumed that males were more likely to desire the same sex. In the early part of the second century A.D. Caelius's topic of his passage was molles which is the feminine behavior of a male. Caelius felt that it was a mental
An adult Athenian male citizen could only have sex with a statutory minor, women of any age, and boys that haven’t hit puberty yet. Males that hadn’t hit puberty was not considered a Athenian citizen yet. French anthropologist Maurice Godelier was supported by the classical Greek record. One of Maurice Godelier statements were, “it is not sexuality which haunts society, but society which haunts the body’s sexuality.”
Sexuality for some is how they identify themselves either heterosexual (male and female) or homosexual (desiring the same sex). Athenaeus which was written seven hundred years later was curious of why Polycrates the tyrant of Samos didn’t send for any boys or women, especially since he was known to be sexually attracted to males. In 92 B.C. it was exceptional for the husband to bring home another woman or male lover. Sometimes even living a completely different life with a male. Even though it was obvious that some males and females were attracted to the same sexit was assumed that males were more likely to desire the same sex. In the early part of the second century A.D. Caelius's topic of his passage was molles which is the feminine behavior of a male. Caelius felt that it was a mental