The History of Sexuality: An Introduction

What is the repressive hypothesis from Foucault's book, The History of Sexuality: An Introduction?

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In context, the repressive hypothesis is the historical theory that sometime after the beginning of the 17th century sexuality was repressed by those in power and we are still fighting the effects of that long repression in our daily lives.

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The History of Sexuality: An Introduction