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We live in a funny time, a funny era, when desire, to be adult desire, has to be conceived as sexual. and that didn't used to be the case. sexuality is a social construction as much as anything else and i think the realities of sexuality don't always fit into the social constructions that we have, and we live in a goal-oriented time - on all fronts.
-Claire Messud
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Claire Messud
We live in a funny time, a funny era, when desire, to be adult desire, has to be conceived as sexual. and that didn't used to be the case. sexuality is a social construction as much as anything else and i think the realities of sexuality don't always fit into the social constructions that we have, and we live in a goal-oriented time - on all fronts.
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