The most perverse perversions are not always those one would expect.]Originally conceived as an American update to Foucault’s History of Sexuality, Overexposed is even more outrageous and thought-provoking today than it was twenty years ago when it was first published. By a strange reversal, instead of being punished, deviant desire now is administrated in specialized clinics under medical supervision. Sexual excess is being turned into a “boredom therapy” claiming to get patients rid of their own desires. But are perversions still perverse when they are vindicated unconditionally? At once clinical, bewildering and deeply poignant, Overexposed shows how science can pervert itself by identifying too closely to its object. Half-way between Dr. Strangelove and Clockwork Orange, this insider’s exposition of cutting-edge [cognitive] behavioral methods is a hallucinating document on the limits presently assigned to humanity. It also offers a reflection on the overall ‘obscenity’ of contemporary society where everything, and not just sex, is exposed in broad daylight to quickly sink into complete indifference.

With a new introduction by the author and an additional chapter.