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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 accurate than feminism about the power and terror of female sexuality.”

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Book:Vamps & Tramps: New Essays

Source: Vamps & Tramps: New Essays

“Ambitious young women today are taught to ignore or suppress every natural instinct, if it conflicts with the feminist agenda posed on them. All literary and artistic works, no matter how great, that document the ambivalence of female sexuality they are trained to dismiss as "misogynous." In other words, their minds are being programmed to secede from their bodies ... there is a huge gap between feminist rhetoric and women's actual sex lives, where feminism is of little help except with a certain stratum of deferential, malleable, white middle-class men.”

“I view the prostitute as one of the few women who is totally in control of her fate, totally in control of the realm of sex. The lesbian feminists tried to take control of female sexuality away from men - but the prostitute was doing that all along.”

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Author:Camille Paglia

“I'd like to think of myself as somebody who has a voice for liberating female sexuality.”

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Author:Sasha Grey

“It's so rare to see a woman's sexuality, real female sexuality, either in the shows or in the clothes.”

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Author:Nan Goldin

“We live in an imbalanced society when it comes to encouraging male sexuality and discouraging female sexuality.”

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Author:Demi Lovato

“I feel like male patriarchy generally has been about repressing female sexuality because it's "scary."”

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Author:Ruth Wilson

“When women are subordinate by their culture, in being able to anticipate or think about pleasurable sex, it boosts dopamine, which is about confidence and assertiveness and motivation and drive and focus. So that to me, explained why for 5,000 years female sexuality has been targeted.”

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Author:Naomi Wolf

“The female psyche is inherently self-sufficient, because female sexuality is inherently self-sufficient. I think women are maybe more comfortable, or women are able to find physical beauty in each other that doesn't terrify them.”

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Author:Laura Marling

“Men have constructed female sexuality and in so doing have annihilated the chance for sexual intelligence in women. Sexual intelligence cannot live in the shallow, predestined sexuality men have counterfeiteed for women.”

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Author:Andrea Dworkin

“The feminist anti-pornography movement, no less than the feminist movement of a century ago, encourages the assumption that male and female sexuality, and possibly morality, are as unlike as yin and yang.”

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Book:WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES

Source: WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES