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Among the intellectuals who have explored eroticism, from Sappho to Benedetto Croce, by way of the 18th Century libertines, to George Bataille’s solar visions and subsequent psychoanalytical discoveries: The crucial issue of an ever present phallocratic bias or rather, if you like, a certain degree of chauvinisme has always played a substantial role.

In this respect, in her 1949 essay “The second sex”, Simone de Beauvoir wrote: «Woman? Very simple, say those who like simple answers: She is a womb, an ovary; she is a female: this word is enough to define her. From a man’s mouth, the epithet …