The History of Sexuality, Vol. 3: The Care of the Self

self-and-identity

• What may be regarded as a more pronounced severity should not be interpreted as a tightening of interdictions; there was no attempt to expand forbidden behaviors.

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• The care of the self is in close correlation with medical thought; philosophy and medicine are concerned with 'a single field,' sharing the concept of pathos.

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desire

• In the soul, the longing to make use of these organs—a marvelous, inexpressible desire—whose singular force is 'even beyond words.'

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• A 'conjugalization' of sexual relations: the nature of sexual intercourse must prevent one from resorting to it outside marriage.

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obedience-and-authority

• What constituted adultery was that the woman was married and that fact alone; the marital status of the man was not relevant.

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• Legislative measures mark little by little the hold of public authority on the marriage institution; the law de adulteriis is one manifestation of this phenomenon.

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