“In a truly liberated, as opposed to liberalized, system, we would have also been freed to be free from sex–to ignore it,or to be asexual, without consequent social opprobrium or imputation of deficiency. Thus, you could indulge in sex or not as you pleased, and have it be a matter or indifference to you. We would see social categories of asexuals free to have no sex just as others are free to have endless spectacular sex, and not feel for them either suspicion or pity.
One of the cruel betrayals of sexual liberation, in liberalization, was the illusion that a person can only be free if he holds sex as all-important and exposes it endlessly to others–providing it, proving it, enjoying it. This was a new kind of unfreedom.”
-Mark Greif, “Children of the Revolution”, November 2006 on Harper Magazine-
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