The essence of oppression is that one is defined from the outside by those who define themselves as superior by criteria of their own choice.
We are born into a world in which sexual possibilities are narrowly circumscribed. . . . We are programmed by the culture as surely as rats are programmed to make the arduous way through the scientist's maze, and that programming operates on every level of choice and action.
In my own life, I don't have intercourse. That is my choice.
