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Sexuality (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a human construct whereby what we think of as 'sexuality' is largely contingent on the kinds of concepts that we relay through it.

Sexuality (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a means of focusing, channeling, and transmitting power, and power is a creative force that determines the relationships between people, institutions, and concepts.

Sexuality (n.) is, ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠in modern societies, not confined to a shadow existence, but spoken of ad infinitum while exploiting it as the secret.

Sexuality (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠not a concept, but a means of linking and drawing concepts together (such as the concept of a child playing with his penis and the concept of medical psychiatry). It is a means of focusing, channeling, and transmitting power.

Sexuality (n.) we ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠ourselves create much more than the discovery of a secret side of our desire that is merely to be 'affirmed'. With our desires go new forms of relationships, new forms of love, new forms of creation.

Sexuality (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the crucial hinge linking an anatomo-politics of the body with a biopolitics of the population.

Sexuality (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a singular form of experience that can be analyzed according to a familiar three-fold division, as a domain of knowledge, a type of normativity, and a mode of relation to the self.

Sexuality (n.) is, ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠for the Greeks, not a moral discrimination because it is a vice, nor because it deviates from a canonical model; rather, it is associated with a force, an energeia, that is itself liable to be excessive

Sexuality (n.) is, ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠along with eating and drinking alcohol, a pleasure of contact and touch, whereby a danger exists in exceeding what is necessary.

Sexuality (n.) is, ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠for the Greeks, a question ethically analogous to food and drink; a question of right use, and not to be done in excess so as to consume too much of one’s energia.

Sexuality (n.) is, ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠for the Greeks, an ethics for men, an ethics of masculine conduct that was thought, written, and taught by men, and addressed to men.

Sexuality (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠an experience constituted by the characteristics and interrelations of (1) the formations of the sciences that refer to it (2) the systems of power that regulate it.

Sexuality (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠formed, for the Greeks, as the object of moral reflection not as an act itself, or desire, or pleasure, but the dynamics that joined all three.

Sexuality (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠that whereby, for the Greeks, the ethical question that was raised was not: which desires? which acts? which pleasures? but rather: with what force is one transported "by the pleasures and desires"?