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Revolutionary Speech?
If sex is repressed, that is, condemned to prohibition, nonexistence, and silence, then the mere fact that one is speaking about it has the appearance of a deliberate transgression. A person who holds forth in such language places himself to a certain extent outside the reach of power; he upsets established law; he somehow anticipates the coming freedom Tomorrow sex will be good again. (Foucault, 6-7)
Repression as Affirmation
Silence itself is less the absolute limit of discourse, the other side from which it is separated by a strict boundary, than an element that functions alongside the thigns said, with them and in relation to them within over-all strategies There is not one but many silences, and they are an integral part of the strategies that underlie and permeate discourses. (Foucault, 27)