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"Irigaray's theories of touch are founded on her perception that female eroticism is not based on the visual, unlike the male voyeuristic gaze, but rather on touching. Touch requires closeness or nearness while vision is distancing, so that all relations that privilege sight privilege distance between subject and object; therefore true connection is impossible in a system that privileges vision."

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