"The physiology of orgasm and penile erection no more explain a culture's sexual schema than the auditory range of the human ear explains its music."
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"Social Construction Theory and Sexuality", quoted in Maus, Fred Everett (2004). "Sexual and Musical Categories", The Pleasure of Modernist Music, p.158.
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