This paper provides a summary of Michel's Foucault's "A History of
Sexuality" in which he examines how dispersed forms of
power, which are embedded in religious, scientific and social norms, create hegemonic ideas regarding proper discourses relating to pleasure and
sexuality. The paper then looks at several
lectures from Sigmund Freud's "Introductory Lectures on Psycho-analysis" in which he discusses how childhood traumas can keep a patient's libido from its natural development, resulting in the perversion of sexual desires.