Isn't privacy about keeping taboos in their place?
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Coitus can scarcely be said to take place in a vacuum although of itself it appears a biological and physical activity, it is set so deeply within the larger context of human affairs that it serves as a charged microcosm of the variety of attitudes and values to which culture subscribes. Among other things, it may serve as a model of sexual politics on an individual or personal plane.Kate Millett
Many women do not recognize themselves as discriminated against; no better proof could be found of the totality of their conditioning.
Kate Millett
What is our freedom fight about? Is it about the liberation of children or just having sex with them?
Kate Millett
The great mass of women throughout history have been confined to the cultural level of animal life in providing the male with sexual outlet and exercising the animal functions of reproduction and care of the young.
Kate Millett
Men and women were declared equal one morning and everybody could divorce each other by postcard.
Kate Millett
I'm slammed with an identity that can no longer say a word; mute with responsibility.
Kate Millett
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