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Kate Millett

The concept of romantic love affords a means of emotional manipulation which the male is free to exploit, since love is the only circumstance in which the female is (ideologically) pardoned for sexual activity.

Kate Millett

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Kate Millett argues that romantic love creates a situation where men can take advantage of women's feelings because society only accepts women having sex when it is framed as love. This means women are socially excused for sexual behavior only within love, giving men power to manipulate emotions under that condition.

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