Part
V: Sexualizing Hong Kong
1. What is sexuality性（意識）?
1.1. Sexuality as a
biological or physiological category生物或生理範疇: “Sex” and other extended behavior or consciousness
are assumed to be our given nature or primordial drive or desire. Usually it is
subject to medical monitor and definition.
http://www.famplan.org.hk/student/index.htm
1.2. Sexuality is
supposed to be having a fixed moral denotation or connotation.
明光社： http://www.truth-light.org.hk/
e.g. Sex+money=immorality
「若將性、感情、生兒育女這些人生重大領域與金錢掛鈎，便很容易變質，建基於金錢交易的性行為是不健康的。」（蔡志森<娼妓合法化的爭議>http://truth-light.org.hk/article_v1/doc/a0000040.doc）
1.3. Sexuality as
cultural (ethical ) practices and discourses文化實踐與論述: “Sex” is not only a physiological or medical issue.
It is related to our understanding of selves, bodies, morality, love, family,
etc. It is not only relevant to
sexual intercourse, but also our cultural expression, media, subculture, etc.
For example, “public sex”. Sexual plurality is a sort of right.
十分一會： http://hkten.i.am/
MyPleasure: http://www.mypleasure.com/
Scarleteen:
http://www.scarleteen.com/about.html
性解放：http://sex.ncu.edu.tw/repression/index.htm
1.4. Sex/ Sexuality as a
hot issue or a popular theme in every kinds of discourse
2. Sexuality and class
2.1. 女人那話兒is a film of women’s “talk”
about sex
2.2. Middle class women
are very talkative about “sex”.
Sex seems to be a popular or ordinary theme in their dialogues.
2.3. Female sex workers
keep silent or their voice is represented by others.
2.4. Sexuality is a kind
of representation involving ability to represent, (legitimate or illegitimate)
form of representation, etc.
3. Sexuality, law and money(性是牛油和麵包)
3.1. This book project is
initiated by 紫藤, a sex worker
organization.
3.1. 性 is not only about ”牛油和麵包”/ money or subsistence.
3.2. Sex worker’s
sexuality is subject to the domination of police and legal system. There are
many stories about the legal problems facing the sex workers.
3.3. Sex workers live in
an underground economy, the other side of “Hong Kong”.
3.4. There always seems
to be a tension between sex workers and their families.
3.5. “Deep” description
of sex workers’ life is a way to resist stigmatization and rectification?
3.6. Prostitute’s
sexuality is a way of life or a culture.
4. Sexuality and Power
4.1. Sexuality (as
cultural practices and discourses) is not merely about sex.
4.2. Sexuality is
embedded in power relations. The case of Hong Kong’s prostitute is an example.
“The question that we
must address, then, is not: Given a specific state structure, how and why is it
that power needs to establish a knowledge of sex? Neither is the question: What
over-all domination was served by the concern, evidenced since the eighteenth
century, to produce true discourses on sex? Nor is it: What law presided over
both the regularity of sexual behavior and the conformity of what was said
about it? It is rather: In a specific type of discourse on sex, in a specific
form of extortion of truth, appearing historically and in specific places
(around the child’s body, apropos of women’s sex, in connection with practices
restricting births and so on), what were the most immediate, the most local power
relations at work? How did they
make possible these kinds of discourses, and conversely, how were these
discourses used to support power relations?... In general terms: rather than
referring all the infinitesimal violences that are exerted on sex, all the
anxious gazes that are directed at it, and all the hiding places whose
discovery is made into an impossible task, to the unique form of a great Power,
we must immerse the expanding production of discourses on sex in the field of
multiple and mobile power relations.” (Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality Vol I: An Introduction. New York: Vintage,
1980: pp. 97-98)