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Review: Sexual Personae by Camille Paglia

Nature and the Nation

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Feminism and Rape

This book takes the point of view of sade, the most unread major writer in western literature. Sade's work is a comprehensive satiric critique of rousseau. The romantic imperative that still permeates our culture would be to give free rein to violence and lust. When social controls weaken, man's innate cruelty bursts forth. Feminists seeking to drive our relations out of sex have set themselves against nature. Sexual freedom, sexual liberation, a modern delusion.

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