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isted within the patriarchal type of society. The tendency to restrict abor-
tion rights in fact clearly aims at a restriction of sexual pleasure, which
consequently could be identified with an imperative of the male sexual
pleasure. And what pleasure is there in this restriction of pleasure? Obvi-
ously, that is the pleasure of forbidding pleasure to the other - to the woman.
From this conclusion it clearly follows: those who believe in existence of an
immoderate and unrestrained sexual pleasure, are the conservatives and not
the feminists! The advocates of the pluralist, liberal, and democratic con-
cepts offer a new model of an economy of sexual pleasure based upon a de-
mystifying of the right of the other to seek pleasure. This type of discourse
therefore is not in fact concentrated around the “problem” of pleasure, ex-
cept in the ironic remarks about the arguments of its adversaries.

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