| Summary: | 碩士 === 世新大學 === 性別研究所 === 104 === Public sex is based on “body techniques” of actors negotiating with the boundary of “de-sexualized” public spheres, receiving the unexpected stimulus from different environments by the corporality and creating sexual trace in each physical space. In this study, the practice of public sex is categorized into three types: Hunting Type, Passion Type, and Exposure Type. Hunting Type is related to the landscapes of sexuality of which the participants enjoy the thrill of cruising in the particular space. Passion Type usually occurs in the acquaintances having sex with passion in the unspecified public place. Actors in Exposure Type trespass continuously against the body concept of prohibition, and attempt to expose or masturbate in the public places for enjoying the pleasure of transgression. The practice of public sex reflects the confrontation to the body politics and questions the ideology shading from the social dominance. In-depth interview of qualitative research is applied for this thesis.
The study is enlightened mainly by the theory of the development of discourse of sexual governance by Foucault. The author observes the practice of public sex and adopts it as an approach to analyze how the interpretations of the knowledge, the epistemology of desire, or as a way of lifestyle against dominant discourses are excluded during the institutionalization and legislation by the contemporary mainstream feminism. The concept of the transgression follows L'Érotisme of Bataille applying to discuss the eroticism politics disguised in public sex, and the engagement between the public and private spheres from the contexts of the body knowledge.
Based on the knowledge and the cultural ethics of public sex, the legally protected interests of the Article 234 of the Criminal Code should be regarded strictly. The author discusses the possibility of the decriminalization of “the obscenity of non-contact to the uncertain object with no compulsory” and to ensure the active sexual practice according to liberty rights enacted from Constitution. In the final chapter, the study concludes and proposes the historic role and future prospect of public sex by reviewing the “group sex in the train” in 2012.
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