Sex isn’t sacred. It’s contractual — a tool and a tactic, used to assign roles, to shame, and to divide. Drawing from Michel Foucault’s The History of Sexuality, this piece explores how power doesn’t just repress — it rewrites the rules. For centuries, sex has been transformed into a mechanism of control, woven into politics, religion, and marriage. Only by confronting these uncomfortable truths can we begin to reclaim pleasure, connection, and freedom from the weight of expectation and silence.