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Sex, Freedom, Happiness

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You have read me telling in this space about the phone conversation I had with my sister in 1999, two weeks before the birth of my first child. Ruthie had two kids by then, so she knew what she was talking about. She told me that all the fears my then-wife and I had about losing freedoms were justified: you will lose these freedoms. But what nobody can …

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