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"But there may be another reason that makes it so gratifying for us to define the relationship between sex and power in terms of repression: something that one might call the speaker’s benefit. 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."

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Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality, Volume I

I’m not really sure I buy the argument that me writing about my sex life is the same as a (male) Victorian psychiatrist writing about the abnormal sexuality of women and mental patients, but it’s probably worth remembering that things that seem transgressive can still be part of a  system of control and regulation.