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The Danger of Child Sexuality - an interview with Michel Foucault
THE DANGER OF CHILD SEXUALITY
"The Danger of Child Sexuality", Foucault's dialogue with Guy
Hocquenghem and Jean Danet, was produced by Roger Pillaudin and
broadcast by France Culture on April 4, 1978. It was published as "La
Loi de la pudeur" in RECHERCHES 37, April 1979. First published in
English in Semiotext(e) Magazine (New York): Semiotext(e) Special
Intervention Series 2: Loving Boys / Loving Children (Summer 1980), in a
translation by Daniel Moshenberg.
This is the full version, published in: Michel Foucault: politics,
philosophy, culture: interviews and other writings. Ed. by Lawrence D.
Kritzman. (New York: Routledge, 1988). Translated by Alan Sheridan, with
the title "Sexuality Morality and the Law."


THE DANGER OF CHILD SEXUALITY
MICHEL FOUCAULT: All three of us agreed to take part in this broadcast (it
was agreed in principle several months ago) for the following reason.
Things had evolved on such a wide front, in such an overwhelming and at
first sight apparently irreversible way, that many of us began to hope
that the legal regime imposed on the sexual practices of our
contemporaries would at last be relaxed and broken up. This regime is not
as old as all that, since the penal code of 1810 (1) said very little
about sexuality, as if sexuality was not the business of the law; and it
was only during the 19th century and above all in the 20th, at the time of
Petain or of the Mirguet amendment (1960) (2), that legislation on
sexuality increasingly became oppressive. But, over the last ten years or
so, a movement in public opinion and sexual morals has been discernible in
favor of reconsidering this legal regime. A Commission for the Reform of
Penal Law was even set up, whose task it was to revise a number of
fundamental articles in the penal code. And this commission has actually
admitted, I must say with great seriousness, not only the possibility, but
the need to change most of the articles in our present legislation
concerning sexual behavior. This commission, which has now been sitting
for several months, considered this reform of the sexual legislation last
May and June. I believe that the proposals it expected to make were what
may be called liberal.
However, it would seem that for several months now, a movement in the
opposite direction has begun to emerge. It is a disturbing movement -
firstly, because it is not only occuring in France. Take, for example,
what is happening in the United States, with Anita Bryant's campaign
against homosexuals, which has almost gone so far as to call for murder.
It's a phenomenon observable in France. But in France we see it through a
number of particular, specific facts, which we shall talk about later
(Jean Danet and Guy Hocquenghem will certainly provide examples), but ones
that seem to show that in both police and legal practice we are returning
to tougher and stricter positions. And this movement, observable in police
and legal practice, is unfortunately very often supported by press
campaigns, or by a system of information carried out in the press. It is
therefore in this situation, that of an overall movement tending to