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For, of course, the manufacturer's problem was not to satisfy woman's need for individuality, for expression or creativity, but to sell more patterns-which is better done by building conformity.
Time and time again, the surveys shrewdly analyzed the need. and even the secret frustrations of the American housewife; and each time if these needs were properly manipulated, she could be induced to buy more "things."
— Oct 26, 2025 09:08AM
Time and time again, the surveys shrewdly analyzed the need. and even the secret frustrations of the American housewife; and each time if these needs were properly manipulated, she could be induced to buy more "things."
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"In the years between the "emancipation" of women won by the feminists and the sexual counterrevolution of the feminine mystique, American women enjoyed a decade-by-decade increase in sexual orgasm."
— Oct 27, 2025 03:36PM
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Capacities clamor to be used, and cease their clamor only when they are well used. That is, capacities are also needs. Not only is it fun to use our capacities, but it is also necessary. The unused capacity or organ can become a disease center or else atrophy, thus diminishing the person.
— Oct 27, 2025 09:29AM
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"Some social theorists even suspect that the very absence of other concerns, in that dying Austrian empire, caused the sexual preoccupation of Freud's patients."
— Oct 20, 2025 11:15AM
