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Philosophy of sex

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The explanation comes from the infantile sexual theories. There really was a time in which the male genital was found to be compatible with the representation of the mother.
Sigmund Freud, Leonardo da Vinci
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That extension is of a twofold kind. In the first place sexuality is divorced from its too close connection with the genitals and is regarded as a more comprehensive bodily function, having pleasure as its goal and only secondarily coming to serve the ends of reproduction. In the second place, the sexual impulses are regarded as including all of those merely affectionate and friendly impulses to which usage applies…
Sigmund Freud, The problem of lay-analyses
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But it is above all in the realm of sex that early moral teaching does harm. If a child has been conventionally educated by somewhat stern parents or nurses, the association between sin and the sex organs is so firmly established by the time he is six years old that it is unlikely ever to be…
Bertrand Russell, The conquest of happiness
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