Foucault, Michel – Technologies of the self 1988

When I began to study the rules, duties, and prohibitions of sexuality, the interdictions and restrictions associated
with it, I was concerned not simply with the acts that were permitted and forbidden but with the feelings
represented, the thoughts, the desires one might experience, the drives to seek within the self any hidden
feeling, any movement of the soul, any desire disguised under illusory forms. There is a very significant
difference between interdictions about sexuality and other forms of interdiction. Unlike other interdictions,