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sense of relief and joy at being so completely “accepted” and so fully “welcomed.”

women underestimate the importance to men of women’s acceptance of them.

Female sexual pleasure, rightly understood, is not just about sexuality, or just about pleasure. It serves, also, as a medium of female self-knowledge and hopefulness; female creativity and courage; female focus and initiative; female bliss and transcendence; and as medium of a sensibility that feels very much like freedom.