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[We do] not need to apologize for...sex......People are at last beginning to wake up to the fact that they have a right to sexual satisfaction in this life; that they have no need to feel guilty about being human beings... ...Let us look, too, at other countries where horror and bloodshed abound. How often do we see this accompanied by a sexual ethic which advocates repression? | 
| ...If all that was required was the continuation of the species, then the elaborate complex of sexuality, both physical and psychological, would not have been necessary on the part of nature. There are many organisms in this world, from the amoeba upwards, which procreate by means of simple fission or by virgin birth; but they are all on the lower rungs of the ladder of evolution.
The joys and pangs of sexual love are something we have risen towards, not fallen into. - Doreen Valiente, 1978 |
