The Plurality of c[u-o]me: Transgressing the Soliloquies of Rape and Sex towards a Language of [Post-]Sexual Dialogue

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Academic Paper from the year 2019 in the subject Gender Studies, grade: A, University of Calcutta (University of Calcutta), course: MPhil in English Literature, language: English, abstract: This paper tries to abandon any kind of historical tracing of the possible existence of a sex before sex and tries to found and inaugurate a language of sexual dialogue that ruptures the dialectic division of sex on the basis of what is permitted and what is prohibited or what is considered normal and what is deemed perverse. Sex, sexuality and the language of sexual practices have always been polarized and divided into the legitimate and the illegitimate. Although notions of nineteenth century morality contributed heavily to this division between normalized sex [sex for the sake of reproduction] and perverse sexual activities [prostitution, rape, incest, sodomy, etc.], the initial divide can be traced back tentatively to a time before the classical period in Europe [and even to the very beginning of culture]. This language of c[u-o]me [a conflation of the two words cum and come] or post-sexual dialogue shall be a language of "multiplicity" and "pluralization", a language that would not only discard the tendency to insulate sexual experiences through monologues or soliloquies but would also try to establish a dialogue between terms and positions of enunciation that are considered oppositional and therefore establish in the process a new chain of signifiers that uphold the logic of non-privilege through commerce, conjunction and sexual play.