“Sexuality is something we create ourselves: it is our own creation, much more than the discovery of a secret aspect of our desire. We must understand that with our desires, through them, new forms of relationship, new forms of love and new forms of creation are established. Sex is not a fatality, it is the possibility of accessing a creative life.”

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“The rights of the individual when it comes to sexuality are important, and there are still many places where they are not respected. It is not necessary to believe that at the present time these problems are solved. It is true that at the beginning of the 1970s there was a real process of liberation. This process was very beneficial, both in terms of the situation and mentalities, but it did not stabilize definitively. We must still, it seems to me, take a step forward. And I believe that one of the factors of that stabilization will be the creation of new forms of life, of relationships, of friendships, in society, art, culture: new forms that will be established through our sexual, ethical and political choices. . We must not only defend ourselves but affirm ourselves, and affirm ourselves not only as an identity but as a creative force.”

Michel Foucault