Foucault defended the decriminalization of pedophilia and rape
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Scientific Articles
Valls, R., Elboj, C., Serradell, O., Díez-Palomar, J., Aiello, E., Racionero, S., Vidu, A., Roca, E., Joanpere, M., & López de Aguileta, A. (2022). Promoting Admiration of Foucault Hiding his Defense of Rape and Pederasty. International and Multidisciplinary Journal of Social Sciences. https://doi.org/10.17583/rimcis.9560 (Scopus Q2 in 2020)
Taylor, C. (2009). Foucault, Feminism, and Sex Crimes. Hypatia, 24(4), 1-25. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1527-2001.2009.01055.x (Scopus Q1 in 2009; Q1 2019)
Žižek, S. (2018). Provocations: The 1968 revolution and our own. World Policy Journal, 35(2), 124-129. (Scopus Q4 in 2018; Q3 in 2019)
Cahill, A. (2000). Foucault, Rape, and the Construction of the Feminine Body. Hypatia, 15(1), 43-63. http://www.jstor.org/stable/3810511 (SCOPUS Q2 in 2000; Q1 in 2019) ALMETRICS https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/j.1527-2001.2000.tb01079.x
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There are scientific articles proving Foucault defense of decriminalization of pedophilia and rape.
According to Zizek (2018) in 1968, “the French “progressive” press published a series of petitions demanding the decriminalization of pedophilia, claiming that this would abolish the artificial and oppressive culturally constructed frontier that separates children from adults, and would extend to children the right to freely dispose with one’s body” (p.127). Among the people who signed these petitions, there were Michel Foucault, Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre or Jacques Derrida.
In addition, in 1977 “he contemplated the idea that rapists should be punished only for a crime of violence, and not for a sex crime” (Taylor, 2009, p.1) and he added that sexuality can not be the object of punishment under any circumstances (Cahill, 2000)
Other sources
Bell, V. (1991). Beyond the thorny question – feminism, foucault and the desexualisation of rape. International Journal of the Sociology of Law, 19(1), 83-100
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In my teaching classes at the University, I have introduced this evidence and it is common that the students don’t have this information. I consider crucial to provide the details about the position of Foucault in this domain, which is totally contrary to women´s freedom.
Está comprobado que Foucault ha hecho declaraciones minimizando la violación como una violencia como otra cualquiera y que ha apoyado la despenalización del sexo entre mayores y menores de edad si es consentido. La crítica que hacemos es sobre estos artículos ya que no hacen referencias precisas a Foucault en “Promoting admiración of Foucault hiding his defensa of rape and pederasty” (2022) sólo se hace referencia a un libro de éste. También se afirma que los que enseñan a este autor promueven sus pensamientos . Esto implica desvalorización todo el aporte a las ciencias sociales . Sin embargo, en ” Foucault feminism and sex crimes “(2009) contextualiza a Foucault. En el último artículo en donde se afirma que las violaciones son un tipo de agresión en particular por la que lucha el feminismo.