Top 4 Quotes & Sayings by Gayle Rubin

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American anthropologist Gayle Rubin.
Last updated on November 18, 2024.
Gayle Rubin

Gayle S. Rubin is an American cultural anthropologist best known as an activist and theorist of sex and gender politics. She has written on a range of subjects including feminism, sadomasochism, prostitution, pedophilia, pornography and lesbian literature, as well as anthropological studies and histories of sexual subcultures, especially focused in urban contexts. Her 1984 essay "Thinking Sex" is widely regarded as a founding text of gay and lesbian studies, sexuality studies, and queer theory. She is an associate professor of anthropology and women's studies at the University of Michigan.

Ultimately, of what possible social significance is it if a person likes to masturbate over a shoe? It may even be non-consensual, but since we do not ask permission of our shoes to wear them, it hardly seems necessary to obtain dispensation to come on them.
We must not reject all sexual contact between adults and young people as inherently oppressive. — © Gayle Rubin
We must not reject all sexual contact between adults and young people as inherently oppressive.
Youth Liberation has argued for some time that young people should have the right to have sex as well as not to have it, and with whom they choose. The statutory structure of the sex laws has been identified as oppressive and insulting to young people. A range of sexual activities are legally defined as molestation, regardless of the quality of the relationship or the amount of consent involved.
Whenever there is polarization, there is an unhappy tendency to think the truth lies somewhere in between.
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