Foucault: in the nineteenth century, "medicine made a forceful entry into the pleasures of the couple: it created an entire organic, functional, or mental pathology arising out of 'incomplete' sexual practices; it carefully classified all forms of related pleasures; it incorporated them into the notions of 'development' and instinctual 'disturbances'; and it undertook to manage them." (41)
> from Michel Foucault's The History of Sexuality: An Introduction (1976, translated 1977)
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