A Reflective Note on The History of Sexuality and Necropolitics

Running Head: A REFLECTIVE NOTE ON “THE HISTORY OF SEXUALITY” AND “NECROPOLITICS”
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Running Head: A REFLECTIVE NOTE ON “THE HISTORY OF SEXUALITY” AND “NECROPOLITICS”
Introduction
We are living in a democratic world where we can practice a life of our choice in terms of
religion, profession, and sexual orientation. As a statement it takes us into a utopian universe,
however, put a question mark on this statement and you will find that all of a sudden the
pieces of the literature like "Necropolitics” and “The history of sexuality" has a great
relevance in our life because they deal with a basic right of every human being, this right is
“right to live (Marina Gržinić, 2014).”
Religion, culture, sexuality (desires and orientations) together constitute a maze called life
where we search for happiness and peace. The books of the history and legal history give us
an impression that most of the wars were fought to gain an economic imperialism. They tell
us that the concept of the might right prevails during these wars. However, both the above-
mentioned literature present a different picture, a picture where the authors read between the
lines and came up with an ethnographic cultural account of the life of the people. However,
this cultural account was forced upon them with an intention to tame them for the interests of
the sovereigns (Jin Haritaworn, 2014).
The history of Sexuality is all about the perception of sexuality
Sexuality is a pleasurable yet taboo subject for the western world, author Michael Foucault
presented a chronological order of the mindset of the people where he raised certain poignant
questions connected to the definitions of the social perception of the sex (Scott Spector,
2014). This book is an eye-opener in many ways on a surface it seems that it is talking about
the liberalization of the society where people are learning to live with their carnal desires and
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