The Politics of the Personal in Michel Foucault Forms of social disqualification and demonization that befall the sodomite

e during the pre-19th century Europe only in Foucaults History of Sexuality did the sodomite became a temporary aberration the homosexual was now a species The specification of homosexuality was regarded and interconnected with the emergence of the bourgeois sexuality which was subjected to a regime of repression The homosexual was stamped with the forms of unhealthy, predatory, and frightening otherness that basically related to the criminal and the madman Under the terms of singular nature homosexuality became under the sway of medical psychological discourse concerning the fact of acceptability In the progress of medical technology homosexuality Foucault explains that imbedded in bodies as a medical object one had to try and detect homosexuality within the depth of the organism or the surface of the skin There is an invitation for the identity formation of the homosexual but this attempt it was described as a trap by Foucault since it merely multiplies the institution of social mores, medical categories and psychological classifications.