Foucault's -- Michel not Léon --Pendulous Appendage: the Great History of Sexuality.

Michel Foucault has written:

" The society the emerged in the 19th century ... did not confront sex with a fundamental refusal of recognition. On the contrary, it put into operation an entire machinery for producing true discourses concerning it. Not only did it speak of sex and compel everyone to do so; it also set out to formulate the uniform truth of sex. As if it needed this production of truth. As if it was essential that sex be inscribed not only in an economy of pleasure, but in an ordered system of knowledge. Thus sex gradually became an object of great suspicion; the general and disquieting meaning that pervades out conduct and out existence, in spite of ourselves; the point of weakness that we each carry within us; a general signification, a universal secret, an omnipresent cause, a fear that never ends."