What is social order, and how is it constructed? To look for answers, we must take a system of state management of the lives of citizens into consideration. One of them is related to reproduction, and in the following, sexuality. What helps keep these areas in check are schemes. Repetitive, unifying, commonplace, and, above all, disciplinary.

Each country has a long-term demographic strategy that aims to increase the fertility rate. Hormonal health and reproduction policies are set, which are part of society management. Their consequences are measurable standards – statistic, charted and tabulated. Therefore, biological limitations, real possibilities, or needs that do not fit established patterns are rejected and considered as unquantifiable. The state’s organisms run the organisms of individuals. However, the consequences of these management strategies are felt by each one individually, on their own bodies.

Agnieszka Grodzińska looks at social choreographies, their teaching methods, and knowledge development. Her research material consists of instructions on sexual partnerships, guides, textbooks, educational boards and diagrams, published by various socialist countries. Reaching for the technique of reproduction and image transformation, she reflects on the imposed reproductive models.

The question, then, is not how to make a baby, but who is saying how it should be made, and in what way. And why is this keep saying.

— Jagna Domżalska, Aleksandra Pietrzak