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Review: Sexual Personae by Camille Paglia

Nature and the Nation

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Feminism Is Heir to Rousseau

The idea of the ultimate benevolence of nature and god is the most potent of man's survival mechanisms. Rousseau rejects original sin, christianity's pessimistic view of man born unclean with a propensity for evil. Without it, a culture would revert to fear and despairsex ity and eroticism are the intricrate intersection of nature and culture. Feminists grossly over simplify the problem of sex when they reduce it to a matter of social convention,. Eliminate sexual inequality, purify sex roles, and happiness and harmony will reign here.

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