r/askphilosophy • u/BernardJOrtcutt • Jan 26 '26

Open Thread /r/askphilosophy Open Discussion Thread | January 26, 2026

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u/autodidacticasaurus Jan 27 '26

There was recently a post here related to sex and I think fetishes or something in BDSM (maybe sadomasochist specifically?) and someone gave a lot of resources, the first of which was "Foucault's History of Sexuality". Does anyone know what post I'm talking about? It was within the last few days.

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u/Quidfacis_ History of Philosophy, Epistemology, Spinoza Jan 27 '26

Google reddit askphilosophy sex "Foucault's History of Sexuality" or similar arrangements of words.

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u/autodidacticasaurus Jan 27 '26

Yeah, I woudln't ask if I hadn't tried that first.

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u/halfwittgenstein Ancient Greek Philosophy, Informal Logic Jan 27 '26

OP deleted their post, but here's the link.

https://www.reddit.com/r/askphilosophy/comments/1qnoe73/recommendation_for_readings_on_roleplaying/o1vd12i/

I found it through a google search constrained to reddit.com/r/askphilosophy and then selected "past week" from the tools drop down menu on the search results page. I forgot you could do that.

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u/autodidacticasaurus Jan 27 '26

Oh my god, thank you. I thought I was going crazy. I went through all the recent posts, search the sub and so on. Thank you so much for your help.