The scientific community is a community in which many people do not understand. Science is looked upon as too complex and too obsessed with terminology in which established a new language for the field. What many may not understand, however, is that sciences have developed outside of just cells and microscopes. The biggest science today is the socialized science of gender and sexuality. As a scientist and researcher, I am familiar with the abundant terms for specific organelles within a cell or the detailed parts of the cell walls in microbes. In biological sciences specifically, knowing the exact term for a component of a cell is essential for understanding its function and origin. I see this type of science, in which everything must be labeled, defined, and concrete in today’s society specifically through the socially constructed terms and variations of sexuality. …show more content…
Throughout his piece, Foucault argues that the term sex does not, and should not, be related to the field of medicine, because it is not a science, and that the “discourse on sex has been multiplied rather than rarefied and… it has carried with it taboos and prohibitions” (Foucault 53). While reading Foucault’s piece, I found myself asking, why is it that sexuality is associated with identity at all? Why must there be categories and then stereotypes associated within one’s sexual preferences; isn’t sex supposed to be a private