Source: Psycho-Cybernetics (1960), p. 31
“It is generally my thesis then to insist on the importance of imagination in sex, to insist that the practice of sex, as performed among human beings, be accorded the same deliberate and playful application of fancy, imagination and intelligence as any other significant human activity.”
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John Norman
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Imaginative Sex
Imaginative Sex, Masquerade, 1997 New York, ISBN 1-56333-561-1, p. 13
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