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And where do you think you find that? I do not know about other cultures, but in the culture that I live in everybody almost constantly hears/sees messages telling him/her that sex is "natural", "normal", "healthy", etc. and feels social pressure to be sexually active....

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Tim4Wisdom wrote:compulsory sexuality

What's compulsory sexuality? O.o

Sex that is done to meet the demands/expectations of society--not the result of the intentions of the self.

What about pedophilia, bestiality, and also rape? What about also considering procreation, instead of making sex into this idea of 'eternal pleasure'? I believe there should also be a consideration of self-control. What about antisexualism? Antisexualism aside, what about being able to think that s...

When a person is subjected to social sanctions because of his/her pedophilia, is he/she "repressed"?

Critics of the sex-positive movement and compulsory sexuality say that those things are oppressive. Good so far. But when those critics say who is being oppressed they add to the categories/"orientations"/identities structure by lumping everything else into the popular new category of &quo...