Zwischen Lustanreizungen und Biopolitik – Der Coronadiskurs und die Widersprüche des modernen Sexualdispositivs
DOI: 10.61387/S.2021.2.19
Autoren
Tino Heim
Abstract
Wherever sex and sexualities have been discussed within the Corona discourse, the focus was not only laid on consider- ations concerning hygiene-policy, but also on the importance of stimulating sexual pleasure under pandemic conditions. Within the mass media as well as in health authority guide- lines, expectations became clear, that sexual pleasure could not only promote the immune system and general health conditions, but would also help to stabilize overburdened close relationships and to compensate for various psychosocial and socio-economic deprivations and stresses. In addition to self- and cybersex, this also applied to various interaction practices under conditions of physical presence. Compared to other con- tact restrictions in the time of the lockdowns, this ostentatiously liberal attitude towards sexual contacts seems astonishing. This article first works out the peculiarities and characteristics of corresponding discourses on a descriptive level. The findings are then analyzed in the broader contexts of the constitution and regulation of sex in modern society, whereby genealogical aspects are considered as well as questions of functional-anal- ysis. Following neo-Marxist and post-structuralist theoretical perspectives, the problems, expectations, functions and con- tradictions associated with sex and sexualities are discussed in the context of social relations of production and power. Finally, the question is asked, which general contradictions of the modern sexual-dispositive become increasingly visible in the pandemic-induced state of emergency.
Keywords
Critical discourse analysis, Corona, Biopolitics, Health prevention, Sexual pleasure, Self sex, Neosexual revolution, Nor, malism
Metadaten
Veröffentlicht in: Sexuologie. Zeitschrift für Sexualmedizin, Sexualtherapie und Sexualwissenschaft. Band 28 • Jahr 2021 • Heft 2, Seiten 91-106