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Discuss the change from the "one sex" model to the "two sex" model and the affect this had on sexuality throughout the 18th and 19th century?
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Discuss the change from the "one sex" model to the "two sex" model and the affect this had on sexuality throughout the 18th and 19th century? The word sex refers to both the physical activity of sex and the designation of anatomical differences between female and male bodies. Throughout the 18th century sex and sexuality became indivisible from the biological differences between female and male bodies; it seems impossible to discuss sexuality in the 18th century without simultaneously including a reference to the biological distinction between the two sexes. In order to fully understand the effect that the diversity between the sexes, sexuality and social order had on the 18th and 19th century one must look at modern European history and science. Doing so will illustrate that sexuality and sexual difference was a modern trend and that both nature and sexed bodies have a history, or as Michelle Foucault would say...
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