Foucault's stated objective in questioning and reformulating the dominant"story"about sex and sexuality in the modern West Briefly my aim is to examine the case of a society which has been loudly castigating itself for its hypocrisy for more than a century, which speaks verbosely of its own silence, takes great pains to relate in detail the things it does not say denounces the powers it exercises, and promises to liberate itself from the very laws that have made it function. [. the question would like to pose is not Why are we repressed? but ather, Why do we say, with so much passion and so much resentment against our most recent past, against our present, and against ourselves, that we are repressed"( 8)Foucault’s stated objective in questioning and reformulating the dominant “story” about sex and sexuality in the Modern West • “Briefly, my aim is to examine the case of a society which has been loudly castigating itself for its hypocrisy for more than a century, which speaks verbosely of its own silence, takes great pains to relate in detail the things it does not say, denounces the powers it exercises, and promises to liberate itself from the very laws that have made it function. […] The question I would like to pose is not, Why are we repressed? but rather, Why do we say, with so much passion and so much resentment against our most recent past, against our present, and against ourselves, that we are repressed” (8)