Sexualized bodies of the Filipino: Pleasure and desire as everyday truth and knowledge

• Main Author: Contreras, Antonio P.
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2014
• Subjects: Human body; Human body—Erotic aspects; Pleasure; Sex; Desire; Philosophy
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/575
• Institution: De La Salle University

This paper will show that attempts to control the body in late capitalism is replete with symbolic violence, but Filipinos have not succeeded in confining the body, thereby validating Foucault's (1980) critique of the repressive hypothesis. Ordinary narratives about the body in the Philippines...