But as this first overview shows, we are dealing less with a discourse on sex than with a multiplicity of discourses produced by a whole series of mechanisms operating in different institutions.

• 但是，这一初步的观察显示，与其说我们研究的是性话语，不如说我们研究的是由一整套不同机构的不同机制所运作出来的各种不同的话语。