It's the fear that any move toward greater personal freedom -- especially sexual freedom -- will lead to a free-for-all and a violation of Islamic principles.

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Unlike the male condom, the effectiveness of the Pill was not linked to use during sexual activity, giving women unprecedented sexual freedom and control over their fertility.

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The director has a fine eye for the textures of a burgeoning city, which seems good for one thing: sexual freedom a liberating anonymity that is also alienating.

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Formerly bastions of intellectual freedom in a world of Babbitry, formerly the locus of sexual freedom and experimentation, they now became the most restrictive environments in modern society.

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Conflating age of marriage for girls (18) with age of consent, says researcher Pallavi Gupta "negates any form of sexual freedom that young girls below that age group can exercise".

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Because they, living in a city like Delhi, know exactly what it means not to have sexual freedom. to feel watched all the time, to feel like their sexuality is controlled or policed, to reel like they have to hide or lie about what they do -- and they instantly get it.

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In his opinion, freedom of speech for sexual minorities is a violation of what he considers his inalienable right not to have to hear something he finds offensive.

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Instead of making us feel safer in time for Thanksgiving, it gave us a visceral reminder of something not to be thankful for: The loss of freedom symbolized by the fear of borderline sexual assault.

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