religious techniques of confession: where sexuality determines moral worth

 ''Bless me fadder for I have sinned...well ....eh I kissed the Murphy girl at the village pump'

'And how old are you, my child'

'Ate fadder...going on nine...;

'Say tree Hail Marys and an extra on for me dear |Mother'

Foucault shows how sexuality becomes an essential construct in determining not only moral worth, but also health, desire, and identity. Subjects are further obligated to tell the truth about themselves by confessing the details of their sexuality. 

Foucault argued that modern sexuality was characterized by the secularization of religious techniques of confession: one no longer confesses the details of one’s sexual desire to a priest; one goes to a doctor, a therapist, a psychologist, or a psychiatrist.