This article pursued the changing process of the modes structuring sexuality in the 19th century Chosun dynasty by investigating the narratives of forgoing one man`s integrity. The narratives occurred in the literary world till the 17th century were r...
This article pursued the changing process of the modes structuring sexuality in the 19th century Chosun dynasty by investigating the narratives of forgoing one man`s integrity. The narratives occurred in the literary world till the 17th century were restricted by the discourse affirming the pure passion between man[hero] and woman[heroin], believing the power of their pathos. On the contrary, the narratives after the 18th century, especially the prosaic discourses symbolized by the story that man forgoes his integrity moved the principal axis toward the interest-discourse. In that dicourse condition, the love relation between man and woman was set up through the seduction plot unfolded by a man of high birth and a singing and dancing girl. The appearance of a singing and dancing girl as the object of man`s passion didn`t mean only the exchange of a narrative material. The change of the heroin`s character, at last, changed variously the positions of the man and woman in the sexual relationship. In this article, I explained the topic in three dimension, `constructive exterior`, `sanitation and self-preservation discourses`, `accidental sex as the investment and exchange.` These dimensions, thought they are differentiated by the concrete phases, ultimately are same each another in the meaning that they are the examples proving the fact that the sexualization of love and sex had happened in the level of the exchange economy.