Post #352

(Читая Э. Саида) Интересно как с позапрошлого века ориенталистские нарративы в этой теме развернулись на 180 градусов: the association is clearly made between the Orient and the freedom of licentious sex ... for nineteenth-century Europe, with its increasing embourgeoisement, sex had been institutionalized to a very considerable degree. On the one hand, there was no such thing as "free" sex, and on the other, sex in society entailed a web of legal, moral, even political and economic obligations of a detailed and certainly encumbering sort ... so the Orient was a place where one could look for sexual experience unobtainable in Europe.