Despite repeated assurances that women aren’t particularly sexual creatures, in cultures around the world men have gone to extraordinary lengths to control female libido: Mutilation, chadors, witch burnings, chastity belts, corsets, whore-insulting, pathologizing, paternalistic medical diagnoses of nymphomania or hysteria, debilitating scorn on sexually generous women…. Why the electrified high-security razor-wire fence to contain a kitty-cat? — Sex at Dawn (Harper, 2010)

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