17 Quotes by Camille Paglia about Sex




  • Author Camille Paglia
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    Sex IS power. Identity is power. In western culture, there are no nonexploitative relationships. Everyone has killed in order to live.

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    My stress on the truth in sexual stereotypes and on the biologic basis of sex differences is sure to cause controversy.

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    American feminism's nose dive began when Kate Millet, that imploding beanbag of poisonous self-pity, declared Freud a sexist. Trying to build a sex theory without studying Freud, women have made nothing but mud pies.

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    The saints, many of them women, warred with themselves as well as God. The body has its own animal urges, just as there are attractions and repulsions in sex that modern liberalism cannot face.

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    Prostitution is not just a service industry, mopping up the overflow of male demand, which always exceeds female supply. Prostitution testifies to the amoral power struggle of sex, which religion has never been able to stop. Prostitutes, pornographers, and their patrons are marauders in the forest of archaic night.

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