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This particular brand of sexual doublespeak has been remarked upon before, most famously by the late French historian Michel Foucault, who, in his History of Sexuality (published in English in 1978), put forth his unexpected "repressive hypothesis": Those supposedly tight-lipped Victorians, in the course of devising rules to regulate sex and the sciences that investigate its perversions, in fact talked and wrote more about sex than anyone before them.
and the entire Michel Foucault canon ("or should I say oeuvre ?" asks Ken Baker).
Because his theoretical debt to Michel Foucault and his unabashedly political intentions marked him as an avatar of the emerging academic left, a lot of the criticism came from traditional scholars.
White coats seemed scarcely less ominous than white hoods, and fervid anti-psychiatrists like Szasz and Foucault inflamed lovers of freedom against the depredations of nosology.
The people enmeshed in this culture of sex could no more escape or stand outside it, Foucault held, than they could stand outside their own language.