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Key feature of sexual revolution is the large-scale publication and commercialization of details that were once secret. Sexuality has been trivialized. The interesting thing about this is that exaggerated portrayals apparently destroy desire more effectively than any repression.

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Volkmar Sigusch
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: June 11
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