Camille Paglia | The Sun Magazine

Camille Paglia

Camille Paglia is associate professor of the humanities at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

— From August 1990
Essays, Memoirs, & True Stories

The Myth Of Sexual Liberation

Woman’s current advance in society is not a voyage from myth to truth but from myth to new myth. The rise of rational, technological woman may demand the repression of unpleasant archetypal realities. In its argument with male society, feminism must suppress the monthly evidence of woman’s domination by chthonian nature. Menstruation and childbirth are an affront to beauty and form. In aesthetic terms, they are spectacles of frightful squalor.

August 1990
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