Blog #6 queer theory Michelle Smart My group is going to be explaining Queer Theory. The article that we found is an excerpt from Michel Foucault's History of Sexuality. Foucault explains the "Repressive Hypothesis" which is since the rise of the bourgeoise, any expenditure of energy on purely pleasurable activities has been frowned upon. Sex should on,y be a private practical affair, only between and husband and a wife, and any sex outside of these confines is simply repressed. Foucault believes that there are two outlets from this repression: prostitution and psychiatry. Those that used these outlets were called the "other" Victorians and were looked down upon. This repressive hypothesis is an attempt to give revolutionary importance to discourse on sexuality. Foucault asks three main questions to this theory; 1) is it historically accurate to trace what we think of today as sexual repression to the risk of the bourgeoise in the 17th century? 2) is the power in our society really expressed primarily in terms of repression? 3) is our modern day discourse on sexuality really a break with the older history of repression, or is it part of the same history? Foucault wants to know why and how sex has been made an object of discussion and looked down upon. This article will help our explanation of the repressed in Queer Theory. There is so much repression and discussion on what it is to be Queer or writing it into stories that people read. It can be really critiqued in a bad way and not accepted by society.