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“Despite women's experience or knowledge of sexual violence, despite whatever is going on in their marriages and how their husbands behave, women are expected to engage with enthusiasm in sex. [Women] have to make a separation between the sex in which they 'let go' and become enthusiastic and the rape they experienced last night or the pornographic advert they saw on the underground this morning. What is required is either a mind/body split or an eroticising of the oppression itself.”

Book:Anticlimax: a feminist perspective on the sexual revolution

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Anticlimax: a feminist perspective on the sexual revolution

Anticlimax delves into the complexities of the sexual revolution, examining its implications and consequences through a feminist lens. The book investigates how the movement has shaped contemporary attitudes towards sex, relationships, and gender roles. more

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Sheila Jeffreys

Sheila Jeffreys is a renowned political scientist born on May 13, 1948. Her research focuses on gender politics and feminist theory, offering profound insights into issues of gender inequality and women's rights. more

“A woman who has experienced rape or sexual harassment in childhood or adulthood, who knows about the rape and murder of women from the media, who has seen the sexual values of men portrayed in their pornography and on billboards, has a difficult choice in the area of sex with men. She can choose to treat her man as being quite different from other men and as being in no way implicated in men's sexual violence. This is not easy and requires an awkward split in her mind. She is still unlikely to escape having her sexual and emotional responses affected by her experience and knowledge.”

Male Sexuality Sex Violence

Book:Anticlimax: a feminist perspective on the sexual revolution

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“Men are led to believe that to be ‘worthy’ in a woman’s eyes, their manhood must be above average. Considering the global penis size for men is 5.5 inches, this leaves a lot of blokes feeling inadequate.”

Male Sexuality Men S Issues Penis Size Body Shaming Men

Author:Vanessa de Largie

“Starting with rape, feminists dragged into the public arena plentiful evidence that sex was not an unproblematic joy for women. The result of uncovering the huge but hidden amount of abuse that women and girl children suffered in the form of sexual harassment, sexual abuse in childhood and marital rape, was that the sexual-liberation agenda had to be submitted to critical scrutiny.”

Male Sexuality

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“When women and girls experienced throughout life such systematic sexual aggression from men it was realistic and reasonable for women to be resistant to and suspicious of male sexuality. The focus moved away from women as the problem to a critique of male sexual behaviour and an analysis of the ways in which men's sexual violence sustained their power.”