Sexuality and American Culture

I cannot for the life of me recall where, but I once read the following hypothetical ethical situation:

In Jeffrey Eugenides' epic novel Middlesex, we have, once again, the theme of the forbidden love. We saw it first in The Scarlet Letter in the form of adultery and again in Lolita, appearing as pedophilia. Now we have, in books one and two of Eugenides' tale, a new taboo: the incestuous love.

As you know, Marcella and I are working on the issue of street harassment for our final project.

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After Lee posted the NYT article linking the Gathering Storm video, I went to look up a clip from a couple years ago that Fox did commenting on Kathy Griffin's "Suck it, Jesus" comment at the Creative Arts Emmy's, and it is almost as funny as the Gathering Storm. 

This is Kathy's speech: www.youtube.com/watch

And this is Fox: www.youtube.com/watch

Foucault’s deployment of sexuality marks a shift from a system based on marriage and kinship to a broader, more mobile network of relationships.  Using Weston’s essay as an outline and Kushner’s play as a demonstration, I would like to parallel this Foucauldian shift with the following progression of relevant relationships within the discourse of sexuality: from family to community and from community to friends.