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We must not reject all sexual contact between adults and young people as inherently oppressive.

We must not reject all sexual contact between adults and young people as inherently oppressive.

Gayle Rubin
People, Adults, Young

Youth Liberation has argued for some time that young people should have the right to have sex as well as not to have it, and with whom they choose. The statutory structure of the sex laws has been identified as oppressive and insulting to young people. A range of sexual activities are legally defined as molestation, regardless of the quality of the relationship or the amount of consent involved.

Gayle Rubin
Sex, Should Have, Law

Whenever there is polarization, there is an unhappy tendency to think the truth lies somewhere in between.

Gayle Rubin
Truth, Lying, Thinking
Gayle Rubin (2011). “Deviations: A Gayle Rubin Reader”, p.174, Duke University Press

Ultimately, of what possible social significance is it if a person likes to masturbate over a shoe? It may even be non-consensual, but since we do not ask permission of our shoes to wear them, it hardly seems necessary to obtain dispensation to come on them.

Gayle Rubin
Shoes, Likes, May
Gayle Rubin (2011). “Deviations: A Gayle Rubin Reader”, p.181, Duke University Press

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