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Whatever the gender of the participants, all pornography including male-male gay pornography is an imitation of the male-female, conqueror-victim paradigm, and almost all of it actually portrays or implies enslaved women and master.

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Gloria Steinem
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: March 25
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Toledo
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