ABSTRACT
An opportunity to speak at a conference to mark the fortieth anniversary of May 1968 enabled some of us who were around then to reflect on the personal and political trajectories of our lives and to discuss it all with younger colleagues. I chose to present on “Promiscuity—then and now” and used the moment to work up reflections on sexuality and social critique in a historical framework. The responses the presentation evoked were highly charged as memories, many of them doubtless held in the body, played into the current positions and preoccupations of the audience.
