Camille Paglia Quote

Every male copulating with a woman returns to his origins in the womb. Goethe postponed intercourse until he was forty. This must be related to his self-imposed distance from his forceful mother. To refuse phallic penetration is to refuse surrender to the female matrix.


p. 257 - Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)


Every male copulating with a woman returns to his origins in the womb. Goethe postponed intercourse until he was forty. This must be related to his...

Every male copulating with a woman returns to his origins in the womb. Goethe postponed intercourse until he was forty. This must be related to his...

Every male copulating with a woman returns to his origins in the womb. Goethe postponed intercourse until he was forty. This must be related to his...

Every male copulating with a woman returns to his origins in the womb. Goethe postponed intercourse until he was forty. This must be related to his...