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+  From: Matthew King <making@xxxxxxxx>
+  Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 19:44:53 -0500 (EST)
On Wed, 12 Jan 2000 Examhell@xxxxxxx wrote:

> Was Foucault saying no longer make it criminal to rape, or was he saying
> desexualize the form of criminalization?

He was saying neither, in the sense of saying "this is the way it should
be." He was suggesting the latter, definitely not the former, as a point
for discussion. And he more or less says that, as a man, he's not
qualified to pronounce.

Matthew

---Matthew A. King---Department of Philosophy---York University, Toronto---
"Whatever we have words for, that we have already got beyond.
In all talk there is a grain of contempt."
--------------------------------(Nietzsche)--------------------------------



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