Making the right questions. Foucault, power and sexuality

Abstract

This paper aims to point out the prevalence that has existed in looking at sexuality from an approach that raises the repressive hypothesis as its horizon. This is to saythat sexuality has been largely repressed and analyzed as a constrained space by different actors, laws, institutions, cultures, etc. The above has been influenced in Latin America by using a framework of analysis of "power to" and "power on", that looks al power as good or bad, depending on its purpose and results. This view of the repressive hypothesis directly influences the way in how it is investigated, the questions asked and the results that are obtained.This paper aims to present the theoretical and analytical potential of Foucault's theory in these studies in order to allow another type of approach to these issues to move away from looking atsexuality as a site of repression or liberation.