욕망의 사회사, ‘러브모텔’

초록

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the historical changes of Korean inn (motel or love hotel), as tracing socio-historical deployment of spatialized sexual desires from a feminist perspective. Throughout colonial modernity, patriarchal national development, and postmodernity, the socio-cultural meaning of Korean ‘motel’ has been constructed and reconstructed by interactions of subjects to experience the space, normative idea of sexuality, and regulatory devices of law. As regarded as a necessary night-time scape, Korean motel has long been understood as a place of immoral, abnormal, and deviant. However, transgressive sexual pleasure without reproduction, reversed day/night, public/private embedded in spatialized practices in ‘love hotel’ ironically reveal the impossibility of lineal relationship of sex-gender-sexuality based upon the modern notions of time and space, public and private, and gender and sexuality. Therefore, Korean love hotel as contesting non-place and real-place interestingly naturalize normative heterosexuality and disclose its failure at the same time, where feminist interrogation as well as intervention on spatial intimate practices is asked for.

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