Sex as truth?

http://www.sparknotes.com/philosophy/histofsex/

* increasingly, we come to see truth as something to be dug out of our own consciousness
* we think of confession as a way of finding truth, a form of liberation from repressive powers that try to silence us
* subjects: we are subjected to powers that draw confessions from us, and through confession we come to see ourselves as thinking subjects, the subject of confession.
* art vs. science: arts deal with the human response to experience while science is based in fact finding
* both (art/science in Foucault’s sense) deal with the imparting of
secrets
* confession (for Foucault) not inherently liberating for the subject
* this compulsion to divulge secrets about ourselves is largely responsible for our modern concept of subjecthood
* our inner life has become something to examine and to talk about