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11. For this summary, I have relied on the detailed exposition and critique of opposing fem-
 
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inist views on women's sexuality given by Ann Ferguson, "Sex War: The Debate between Radical and Libertarian Feminists," in Ann Ferguson, Ilene Philipson, Irene Diamond and Lee Quinby, and Carole S. Vance and Ann Barr Snitow, "Forum: The Feminist Sexuality Debates,"
Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society
10 (autumn 1984): 10612. (Ferguson refers to "radical feminists" where I refer to cultural feminists and describes sex radical feminists as "libertarian feminists.'')
12. See Chris Straayer, "The Seduction of Boundaries: Feminist Fluidity in Annie Sprinkle's Art/Education/Sex," in
Dirty Looks: Women, Pornography, Power
, ed. Pamela Church Gibson and Roma Gibson (London: BFI Publishing, 1994), 17071.
13. See Roger Scruton,
Sexual Desire
(New York: Free Press, 1986), 284321; Thomas Nagel, "Sexual Perversion," in
The Philosophy of Sex
, 2d ed., ed. Alan Soble (Savage, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 1991), 3951; Robert Solomon, "Sex and Perversion," in
Philosophy and Sex
, ed. Robert Baker and Frederick Elliston (Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1975), 26887, and Robert Solomon, "Sexual Paradigms," in Soble,
The Philosophy of Sex
(1991), 5362; Pope Paul VI, "Humanae Vitae," in Baker and Elliston,
Philosophy and Sex
(1975), 13149.
14. Mortimer R. Kadish, "The Possibility of Perversion," in Soble,
The Philosophy of Sex
(1991), 109.
15. For a more detailed account of Foucault's thesis that power produces and reinforces sexuality, see Michel Foucault,
The History of Sexuality: Volume I, an Introduction
, trans. Robert Huxley (New York: Vintage Books, 1980) and
Power/Knowledge
, ed. Colin Gordon (New York: Pantheon, 1980). For discussions concerning whether Foucault's analysis of the relations between institutional power and sexuality can be recuperated for feminist theorizing, see Jana Sawicki,
Disciplining Foucault
(New York: Routledge, 1991); Irene Diamond and Lee Quinby, eds.,
Feminism and Foucault
(Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1988).
16. Michael Slote, "Inapplicable Concepts and Sexual Perversion," in Baker and Elliston,
Philosophy and Sex
(1975), 263.
17. Kadish, "The Possibility of Perversion," 102.
18. For example, see Nagel, "Sexual Perversion," 39; Solomon, "Sex and Perversion," 270; Sara Ruddick, "Better Sex," in
Philosophy and Sex
, 2d ed., ed. Robert Baker and Frederick Elliston (Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1984), 28789; Robert Gray, "Sex and Sexual Perversion," in
The Philosophy of Sex
, ed. Alan Soble (Totowa, N.J.: Littlefield, Adams, 1980), 167; Michael Ruse, "The Morality of Homosexuality," in Baker and Elliston,
Philosophy and Sex
(1984), 383; Slote, "Inapplicable Concepts," 263.
19. See Solomon, "Sex and Perversion," 285; Nagel, "Sexual Perversion," 290; Alan Soble, "Masturbation and Sexual Philosophy," in Soble,
The Philosophy of Sex
(1991), 145.
20. See Sara Ann Ketchum, "The Good, the Bad and the Perverted: Sexual Paradigms Revisited," in Soble,
The Philosophy of Sex
(1980), 152.
21. See Gayle Rubin, "Thinking Sex: Notes for a Radical Theory of the Politics of Sexuality," in Vance,
Pleasure and Danger
, 282.

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