Sexuality Quotes by Camille Paglia

14 Sexuality quotes by Camille Paglia

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Camille Paglia’s commentary on desire cuts through conventions with scholarly sharpness. Across 14 statements she challenges prevailing narratives, urging a re‑examination of how culture frames our erotic selves.

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“Sex is power.”

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The search for freedom through sex is doomed to failure.

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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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You have to accept the fact that part of the sizzle of sex comes from the danger of sex. You can be…

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Women will never be taken seriously until they accept full responsibility for their sexuality.

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Far from poisoning the mind, pornography shows the deepest truth about sexuality, stripped of romantic veneer.

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Pregnancy demonstrates the deterministic character of woman's sexuality.

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Pursuit and seduction are the essence of sexuality. It's part of the sizzle.

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Women are not in control of their bodies; nature is. Ancient mythology, with its sinister archetypes of vampire and Gorgon, is more…

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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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Ambitious young women today are taught to ignore or suppress every natural instinct, if it conflicts with the feminist agenda posed on…

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Woman's sexuality is disruptive of the dully mechanical workaday world, in which efficiency means uniformity. The problems of woman's entrance into the…

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I support, defend, and admire prostitutes, gay or straight. They do important and necessary work, whether moralists of the Left and Right…

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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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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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Are we like late Rome, infatuated with past glories, ruled by a complacent, greedy elite, and hopelessly powerless to respond to changing conditions?

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Effeminate men have suffered a bad press the world over.

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In the theory of gender I began from zero. There is no masculine power or privilege I did not covet. But slowly, step by…

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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…

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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…

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

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

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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.…

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