‘Getting the nation talking about sex’: reflections on the discursive constitution of sexuality in South Africa since 1994

For a country subjected to many decades of rigid censorship, along with various cultural taboos, discussion and argument on matters of sex and sexuality since 1994 has been remarkable. This article examines how and why this is the case. I look at ‘how sex is put into discourse’ and how this discursive constitution of sexuality has been informed by wider dimensions of the post-apartheid order.