Camille Paglia Quote

In pondering why a battered woman does not leave, we must remember that gay men with a taste for violent rough trade have always paid for this kind of sex. Are women so perfect and angelic that we cannot imagine them having sadomasochistic impulses? When they are genuinely victimized, women deserve our pity. But victimization alone cannot explain everything in the tragicomedy of love.


p. 44 - Vamps and Tramps (1994) - "No Law in the Arena: A Pagan Theory of Sexuality"


In pondering why a battered woman does not leave, we must remember that gay men with a taste for violent rough trade have always paid for this kind...

In pondering why a battered woman does not leave, we must remember that gay men with a taste for violent rough trade have always paid for this kind...

In pondering why a battered woman does not leave, we must remember that gay men with a taste for violent rough trade have always paid for this kind...

In pondering why a battered woman does not leave, we must remember that gay men with a taste for violent rough trade have always paid for this kind...