Freedom Of Conscience Entails More Dangers Than

A Way Of Life Can Be Shared Among Individuals Of Different Ages, Status, And Social Activity. It Can Yield Intense Relations Not Resembling Those That Are Institutionalized. It Seems To Me That A Way Of Life Can Yield A Culture And An Ethics. To Be "gay," I Think, Is Not To Identify With The Psychological Traits And The Visible Masks Of The Homosexual But To Try And Define And Develop A Way Of Life.

...it's My Hypothesis That The Individual Is Not A Pre-given Entity Which Is Seized On By The Exercise Of Power. The Individual, With His Identity And Characteristics, Is The Product Of A Relation Of Power Exercised Over Bodies, Multiplicities, Movements, Desires, Forces.

Probably It's Insufficient To Say That Behind The Governments, Behind The Apparatus Of The State, There Is The Dominant Class; One Must Locate The Point Of Activity, The Places And Forms In Which Its Domination Is Exercised. And Because This Domination Is Not Simply The Expression In Political Terms Of Economic Exploitation, It Is Its Instrument And, To A Large Extent, The Condition Which Makes It Possible; The Suppression Of The One Is Achieved Through The Exhaustive Discernment Of The Other.

The Practice Of S/m Is The Creation Of Pleasure.... And That's Why S/m Is Really A Subculture. It's A Process Of Invention. S/m Isthe Use Of A Strategic Relationship As A Source Of Pleasure.

People Will Be Surprised At The Eagerness With Which We Went Aboutpretending To Rouse From Its Slumber A Sexuality Which Every­thing-our Discourses, Our Customs, Our Institutions, Our Regulations, Our Knowledges-was Busy Producing In The Light Of Day And Broadcasting To Noisy Accompaniment.