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EPILOGUE: THE ABUSE DISCOURSE AND CONTEMPORARY SEXUALITY Introduction In conclusion, I would like to briefly review the possible connections between the emergent abuse discourse and contemporary sexual reality, above all in the area of sexual morality. The relationship between abuse and sexual morality is a dual one in that, on the one hand we must ask ourselves how the changes and characteristics of modern sexuality have been able to influence the abuse phenomenon described here [E127] and, inversely, how the child sexual abuse discourse might affect the configuration of the sexual universe in modernity. Throughout this work, I have already cited some ideas regarding both of these aspects. I will now expand upon some of them. Analysts of modernity usually agree that we are living in confused times, an era of crisis as well as transformation towards a new model of society, albeit one whose outlines are still rather vague. As Lyon (2000) tells us in his analysis of (post) modernity, After providence fell into disfavor as a way of interpreting history, progress -- its secular equivalent -- suffered the same fate. Modernity doesnt lead anywhere. And the consequence of it is our postmodern condition. (ibid. p. 137) Without entering into the debate as to whether we are in post-modernity or modernity -- or not even the latter -- it is clear that the era in which we find ourselves is characterized in large measure by mixture, stylistic confusion, the coexistence of contrary or dispersed lines, by the hybrid. On the planet of consumption, the spectacle, and the fictitious, morality sounds like tradition, and tradition, like that which is ancient and hidebound. A sense of crisis has become generalized in the face of the continuous appearance of new ways of doing things, new relational structures, new economic forms, new artistic expressions, etc. Modernitys benefits, which are legion, seem to have their dark side. One of them is the introduction of a disquieting relati