Editing Perversion (section)

===The permissive society===
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[[File:Chikan Sign 3.jpg|thumb|A [[sign]] in [[Suita, Osaka|Suita city]], [[Osaka prefecture]], [[Japan]], warns 'Beware of Perverts'.]]
With the [[sexual revolution]] of the later twentieth century, much that Freud had argued for became part of a new wide-ranging liberal consensus. At times this might lead to a kind of [[Panglossianism|Panglossian]] world view where every [[Sexual fetishism|fetishist]] has his "fetishera ... for every man who is hung up on shoes, there is a woman ready to cater for and groove with him, and for every man who gets his thrills from hair, there is a woman who gets hers from having her locks raped. [[Havelock Ellis]] has many cases of this meeting of the minds: the man who yearns to get pressed on by high heels sooner or later meets the woman who has daydreamed all her life of heel-pressing".<ref>[[Eric Berne]], ''Sex in Human Loving'' (Penguin 1970) p. 115</ref>

Where internal controversy did arise in the liberal consensus was about the exact relation of variations to normal development—some considering in the wake of Freud that "these different sexual orientations can best be explained and understood by comparison with normal development",<ref>Skynner/Cleese, p. 285</ref> and highlighting the [[fear of intimacy]] in perversion as "a kind of sex ... which is hedged about with special conditions ... puts ''a vast distance'' between the partners".<ref>Skynner/Cleese, p. 290–1</ref> From such a standpoint, "whatever the deviant impulse or fantasy may be, that's where the real, true, loving sexuality is hidden"<ref>Skynner/Cleese, p. 293</ref>—a point of transition perhaps to some of the bleaker post-permissive visions of perversion.