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Camille Paglia points out that men are judged harshly when they seem effeminate, and she sees gay men as guardians of a wild masculine freedom. She argues that real strength comes from controlling, not being controlled, and that sexual life should not be policed. Her quotes mix humor with sharp criticism of gender roles.

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Effeminate men have suffered a bad press the world over.

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A woman simply is, but a man must become.

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Men chase by night those they will not greet by day.

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Though men may be deep, mentally they are slow.

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Sex at the age of 90 is like playing billiards with a rope

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Manhood coerced into sensitivity is no manhood at all.

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Gay men may seek sex without emotion; lesbians often end up in emotion without sex.

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Every man harbors an inner female territory ruled by his mother, from whom he can never entirely break free.

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Woman is the dominant sex. Men have to do all sorts of stuff to prove that they are worthy of woman's attention.

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Male aggression and lust are the energizing factors in culture. They are men's tools of survival in the pagan vastness of female…

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When I meet gay men anywhere in the world, there is a spontaneity and a spirit of fun and mischief that lesbians…

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Today, the ideal male is the gay man and the ideal female is the worker female, the woman who can work in…

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When it defines man as the enemy, feminism is alienating women from their own bodies.

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Men knew that if they devirginized a woman, they could end up dead within twenty-four hours. These controls have been removed.

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Men have sacrificed and crippled themselves physically and emotionally to feed, house, and protect women and children. None of their pain or…

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Straight men who visit prostitutes are valiantly striving to keep sex free from emotion, duty, family--in other words, from society, religion, and…

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Feminism has tried to dismiss the femme fatale as a misogynist libel, a hoary cliche. But the femme fatale expresses woman's ancient…

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If men are obsolete, then women will soon be extinct -- unless we rush down that ominous Brave New World path where…

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Freud says, Man fears that his strength will be taken from him by woman, dreads becoming infected with her femininity and then…

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I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning; that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change; and that passe…

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I view the prostitute as one of the few women who is totally in control of her fate, totally in control of…

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I believe that the shocking toll of AIDS on gay men in the West was partly due to their Seventies delusions that…

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The Bible has come under fire for making woman the fall guy in man's cosmic drama. But in casting a male conspirator,…

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Charisma is the numinous aura around a narcissistic personality. It flows outward from a simplicity or unity of being and a composure…

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I consider myself 100 percent a feminist, at odds with the feminist establishment in America. For me the great mission of feminism…

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Butterfield 8, with its call-girl heroine working her way down the alphabet of men from Amherst to Yale, appeared at a very…

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Elizabeth Taylor is pre-feminist woman. This is the source of her continuing greatness and relevance. She wields the sexual power that feminism…

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Man is not merely the sum of his masks. Behind the shifting face of personality is a hard nugget of self, a…

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The Bobbit case, which brought to life the ancient mythic archetype of woman as castrator, demonstrated that women are as aggressive as…

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It was in reading Tristam Shandy that I noticed how it is primarily men who gravitate towards the game-playing self-reflexive style. There…

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Tranvestism is far more common among men, I noted, because it originates in the primary relation of mother and son.

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In sex, man is driven into the very abyss which he flees. He makes a voyage to non-being and back.

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What feminism calls patriarchy is simply civilization , an abstract system designed by men but augmented and now co-owned by women.

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Men, gay or straight, can get beauty and lewdness into one image. Women are forever softening, censoring, politicizing. ?

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The real butches are straight ... dealing with and controlling men makes you stronger.

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Men who shrink from penetration of the female body are paralyzed by justifiable apprehension, since they are returning to our uncanny site…

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Sex is the point of contact between man and nature, where morality and good intentions fall to primitive urges.

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Promiscuity in men may cheapen love but sharpen thought. Promiscuity in women is illness, a leakage of identity.

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The prostitute is not, as feminists claim, the victim of men, but rather their conqueror, an outlaw, who controls the sexual channels…

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'Mad Men' doesn't capture one single thing about the decor, costumes, or sexual interaction. It is a total projection of contemporary snarky…

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Effeminate men have suffered a bad press the world over.

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The followers of Derrida are pathetic, snuffling in French pockets for bits of pieces of a deconstructive method already massively and coherently presented and…

Gay men are guardians of the masculine impulse. To have anonymous sex in a dark alleyway is to pay homage to the dream of…

Lesbian feminists, for all their ideals of sisterhood and solidarity, can treat each other with a fickleness, a parasitic exploitativeness, and vicious spite that…

There is no true expertise in the humanities without knowing all of the humanities. Art is a vast, ancient interconnected web-work, a fabricated tradition.…