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== Manifestations of Nymphomania, 1907 == | == Manifestations of Nymphomania, 1907 == | ||
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| + | I loved his assessment that, were women as sexually interested as men, the world would be "one vast brothel." The history of the sexual repression of women is long, and these beliefs, or ones like them, persist for long after this was written. It's amazing to consider that so many people still feel similarly towards homosexuality. Dr. Frederick likens lesbianism to some weird practice of child molestation, not unlike ways in which those opposed to same sex marriage offer the 'slippery slope' argument that allowing gay marriage will lead to marriages between adults and children, or adults and animals. -Erin B. | ||
== Carrie Chapman Catt’s address to the LWV == | == Carrie Chapman Catt’s address to the LWV == | ||
