Butchery is not the point of vampirism. Sex - domination and submission - is. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Sex is the point of contact between man and nature, where morality and good intentions fall to primitive urges. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Leaving sex to the feminists is like letting your dog vacation at the taxidermist. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
In sex, man is driven into the very abyss which he flees. He makes a voyage to non-being and back. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Bisexuality is our best hope of escape from the animosities and false polarities of the current sex wars. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Gay men may seek sex without emotion; lesbians often end up in emotion without sex. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
American feminism's nose dive began when Kate Millet, that imploding beanbag of poisonous self-pity, declared Freud a sexist. Trying to build a… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
My stress on the truth in sexual stereotypes and on the biologic basis of sex differences is sure to cause controversy. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
The saints, many of them women, warred with themselves as well as God. The body has its own animal urges, just as… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
We should teach general ethics to both men and women, but sexual relationships themselves must not be policed. Sex, like the city… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
You have to accept the fact that part of the sizzle of sex comes from the danger of sex. You can be… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
The idea that emotion can be separated from sex is a Christian illusion, one of the most ingenious but finally unworkable strategies… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Contemporary feminism cut itself off from history and bankrupted itself when it spun its puerile, paranoid fantasy of male oppressors and female… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Sex IS power. Identity is power. In western culture, there are no nonexploitative relationships. Everyone has killed in order to live. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Madonna has a far profounder vision of sex than do the feminists. She sees both the animality and the artifice. Changing her… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Serial or sex murder, like fetishism, is a perversion of male intelligence. It is a criminal abstraction, masculine in its deranged egotism… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Eroticism is mystique; that is, the aura of emotion and imagination around sex. It cannot be 'fixed' by codes of social or… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Gay men are guardians of the masculine impulse. To have anonymous sex in a dark alleyway is to pay homage to the… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
I want a revamped feminism. Putting the vamp back means the lady must be a tramp. My generation of the Sixties rebels… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
We need a new kind of feminism, one that stresses personal responsibility and is open to art and sex in all their… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Popular culture is the new Babylon, into which so much art and intellect now flow. It is our imperial sex theater, supreme… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Profanation and violation are part of the perversity of sex, which never will conform to liberal theories of benevolence. Every model of… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Ambitious young women today are taught to ignore or suppress every natural instinct, if it conflicts with the feminist agenda posed on… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
The Bobbit case, which brought to life the ancient mythic archetype of woman as castrator, demonstrated that women are as aggressive as… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
I support, defend, and admire prostitutes, gay or straight. They do important and necessary work, whether moralists of the Left and Right… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
I'm for a high libido president! I applaud him if he gets up and picks up women. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
If you live in rock and roll, as I do, you see the reality of sex, of male lust and women being… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Judeo-Christians have got to respect the pagan truth shown in the popular culture of sex and violence. It's meaningful about the elemental… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Woman is the dominant sex. Men have to do all sorts of stuff to prove that they are worthy of woman's attention. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Straight men who visit prostitutes are valiantly striving to keep sex free from emotion, duty, family--in other words, from society, religion, and… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
I view the prostitute as one of the few women who is totally in control of her fate, totally in control of… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
In 1974 I nearly got into a fistfight with some early academic feminists in a restaurant when I casually alluded to a… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Prostitution is not just a service industry, mopping up the overflow of male demand, which always exceeds female supply. Prostitution testifies to… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
A lesser complaint: hair extensions. There are moments on 'All My Children' when half the women actors, young and old, seem to be afflicted… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
I cannot be convinced that great artists are moralists. Art is first appearances, then meaning. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
As a registered Democrat, I am praying for a credible presidential candidate to emerge from the younger tier of politicians in their late 40s.… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Once you have become the centre of a conflict in a complex governmental enterprise you have the obligation to resign. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
I believe that government should confine itself to the public realm and that it should be as stripped down as possible, within reason. It… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
I'm a professor of media studies as well as humanities, and I'm an evangelist of popular culture, but when there's only media, then there's… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
My stress on the truth in sexual stereotypes and on the biologic basis of sex differences is sure to cause controversy. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Are we like late Rome, infatuated with past glories, ruled by a complacent, greedy elite, and hopelessly powerless to respond to changing conditions? — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
In the theory of gender I began from zero. There is no masculine power or privilege I did not covet. But slowly, step by… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
I respect the astute and rigorously unsentimental David Horowitz as one of America's most original and courageous political analysts. He has the true 1960s… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
The followers of Derrida are pathetic, snuffling in French pockets for bits of pieces of a deconstructive method already massively and coherently presented and… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
