suppression of sexuality was essential to an authoritarian governme
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nuclear family, which consists of parents and children relatively isolated from the extended family, is a relic of the twentieth-century middle class
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Marriage today is no longer essential for survival.
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we marry in pursuit of comfort, security, sex, intimacy, and emotional connection.
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write your own script requires a lot of effort, and a lot of honesty, and is the kind of hard work that brings many rewards
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comfort of faith and the security of community.
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concluded that the existence of her clitoris was proof positive that God loved her.
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female sexuality is a commodity and, like all commodities, is made more valuable by its rarity—so a woman who shares
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Some people try to validate their sexual attractiveness over and over, using sex as constant reassurance because they do not see themselves as innately attractive or lovable.
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Everybody knows…” or “Common sense tells us…” Often, these phrases are signposts for cultural belief systems that may be antisexual,