David Simard

• PhD in philosophy
• PhD at Paris-Est Sup

The concept of sexual health was institutionalized by the World Health Organization (WHO) in the 1970s, when controversies between psychoanalysis and cognitive-behaviourism were growing. The new working definition proposed by the WHO in the early 2000s endorsed the cognitive-behavioural approach articulated to utilitarianism, by firmly embedding it...

The historiography of sexuality has either limited the history of the concept of sexual health to its institutionalization by the World Health Organization (WHO) – e.g. several sociologists, psychologists and sexologists – or it has ignored this concept in favour of that of sexual perversion, as in the case of Michel Foucault and, in his wake, Arno...

Le transsexualisme figure toujours en bonne place sur la liste officielle des maladies psychiatriques, tout comme les « perversions » sexuelles, sous le nom moins connoté de troubles paraphiliques. La société, pourtant, a évolué sur les questions touchant aux comportements sexuels et au genre. De sorte que la révision de l’une des principales class...

En m’inspirant du cadre théorique du dispositif de sexualité élaboré par Michel Foucault, je propose de mettre à l’épreuve le concept de « santé sexuelle », institutionnalisé par l’Organisation mondiale de la santé (OMS) dans les années 1970, et dont l’usage depuis les années 1990 dans les politiques de santé publique à travers le monde n’a cessé d...

In sexual matters, the concept of consent has recently come to the forefront. The concept allows a distinction to be made, notably from a legal standpoint, between what is considered to be raped and what is not. It is however a concept that is difficult to define with any clarity; its boundaries are fuzzy and it is the subject of much controversy,...

En matière sexuelle, le consentement est une notion devenue primordiale. Elle permet sur le plan juridique, notamment, de distinguer ce qui ne relève pas du viol et ce qui en relève. C’est toutefois une notion aux contours mal définis, qui donne lieu à des controverses, particulièrement sur la question de la prostitution et sur celle du sadomasochi...

This article investigates the ongoing scientific wrangling concerning the role of pheromones in sexual attraction in human beings, and also in the synchronisation of menstrual cycles in females. It looks in detail at the four areas where the involvement of pheromones in sexual behaviour in humans has given rise to affirmations presented as discover...

David Simard. A Kantian Marx ? The historical experience of Stalinism has led some Marxists to endeavour to save Marx by way of an enterprise of moral reconstruction. Denis Collin thus hopes to find the principle of Kantian morality hiding in Marx’s opus. Such a strategy does not merely attempt to reconcile the unreconcilable. The path it adopts is...