The Deconstruction of Sex

In <i>The Deconstruction of Sex</i> Jean-Luc Nancy and Irving Goh discuss how a deconstructive approach to sex helps us negotiate discourses about sex and foster a better understanding of how sex complicates our everyday existence in the age of #MeToo. Throughout their conversation Nancy and Goh engage with topics ranging from relation penetration and subjection to touch erotics and jouissance. They show how despite its entrenchment in social norms and centrality to our being-in-the-world sex lacks a clearly defined essence. At the same time they point to the potentiality of literature to inscribe the senses of sex. In so doing Nancy and Goh prompt us to reconsider our relations with ourselves and others through sex in more sensitive respectful and humble ways without bracketing the troubling aspects of sex.