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from: Midge Decter

Re: "Liberated" Sex

Posted Wednesday, Feb. 10, 1999, at 10:34 AM ET

But I want to say one thing in defense of girls: It was not they who dreamed up the idea that they seek liberation from the restrictions coming both from within themselves and from society. It was the "experts" of the 1920s and earlier who preached that sexual freedom for women was the road to spiritual and physical health--and the liberal culture in general then swallowed this idea.

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from: Midge Decter

Re: "Liberated" Sex

Posted Wednesday, Feb. 10, 1999, at 10:34 AM ET
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Midge Decter is an essayist and social critic who publishes in a variety of magazines and appears most frequently in Commentary. Norman Podhoretz is editor at large of Commentary magazine and a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute. His latest book, Ex-Friends, was published this month.
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