Whatever else we may say about sex, it is at least as much a social and psychological phenomenon as it is a biological one.
Lillian B. RubinThe structure of the family is not born in nature but in human design. What we can do, we can also undo.
Lillian B. RubinFor sex to be wholly satisfying, we must have at least as much concern for a partner as for self - a requirement that doesn't live comfortably alongside the exhortation to 'do your own thing.' In the end, we are left with an extraordinarily heightened set of expectations about the possibilities in human relationships that lives side by side with disillusion that, for many, borders on despair.
Lillian B. Rubin