Testo Junkie

ized, becomes “real” when that representation becomes a self-representation, is individually assumed as a form of one’s social and subjective identity.

On the contrary, the reality of gender is precisely in the effects of its representation; gender is real

This unveiling of gender depends on an optical ontology: the real is what you can see.

And it was my body, a biopower prosthesis, a microexcitable platform of resistance that fell in love.

The change that will give birth to the disciplinary regime begins with the political management of syphilis, the advent of sexual difference, the technical repression of masturbation, and the invention of sexual identities.11 The culmination of these rigid and cumbersome technologies of the production of sexual identity will come in 1868 with the pathologizing of homosexuality and the bourgeois normalization of heterosexuality.

The anus as a center of production of pleasure (and, in this sense, closely related to the mouth or hand, which are also organs strongly controlled by the sexopolitical campaign against masturbation and homosexuality in the nineteenth century) has no gender

Deleuze and Guattari, “The first organ to suffer privatization, removal from the social field, was the anus. It was the anus that offered itself as a model for privatization, at the same time that money came to express the flows’ new state of abstraction.”

by Monique Wittig in the 1980s to designate heterosexuality— taken not as a sexual practice but as a political regime7

Likewise, Krafft-Ebing created an encyclopedia of normal and perverse sexualities where sexual identities became objects of knowledge, surveillance, and judicial repression.4 At the end of the nineteenth century, laws criminalizing sodomy spread throughout Europe

The biopower processes of the feminine body’s hysterization, children’s sexual pedagogy, the regulation of procreative conduct, and the psychiatrization of the pervert’s pleasures will be to Foucault the axes of this project that he characterized with some degree of irony as a process of sexual modernization.1