Psychiatry Causes So Much Death

In Sex One Wants Or Does Not Want. And The Grief, The Sorrow Of Life Is That One Cannot Make Or Coerce Or Persuade The Wanting, Cannot Command It, Cannot Request It By Mail Order Or Finagle It Through Bureaucratic Channels.

The Enormous Social Change Involved In A Sexual Revolution Is Basically A Matter Of Altered Consciousness, The Exposure And Elimination Of Social And Psychological Realities Underlying Political And Cultural Structures. We Are Speaking, Then, Of A Cultural Revolution, Which, While It Must Necessarily Involve The Political And Economic Reorganization Traditionally Implied By The Term Revolution, Must Go Far Beyond This As Well.

Given The Conditions Under Which You're A Young Person In This Society, Many Things Would Be At Least As Important To You As Your Sexuality.

For It Is Precisely Because Certain Groups Have No Representation In A Number Of Recognized Political Structures That Their Position Tends To Be So Stable, Their Oppression So Continuous.

Coitus Can Scarcely Be Said To Take Place In A Vacuum; Although Of Itself It Appears A Biological And Physical Activity, It Is Set So Deeply Within The Larger Context Of Human Affairs That It Serves As A Charged Microcosm Of The Variety Of Attitudes And Values To Which Culture Subscribes. Among Other Things, It May Serve As A Model Of Sexual Politics On An Individual Or Personal Plane.