May Quote by Lillian B. Rubin

“Whatever else we may say about sex, it is at least as much a social and psychological phenomenon as it is a biological one.”

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Sexual freedom is about choice. It's the freedom to say no as well as yes.

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The ideal visions of one age eventually are seen as its excesses by the next.

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The authoritarian child-rearing style so often found in working-class families stems in part from the fact that parents see aroundthem so many young people…

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We are a society that values a man for what he does in the world, a woman for how she looks.

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For those who have lived on the edge of poverty all their lives, the semblance of poverty affected by the affluent is both incomprehensible…

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For sex to be wholly satisfying, we must have at least as much concern for a partner as for self - a requirement that…

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