I am reading “Sexual Personae” by Camille Paglia which I got as a Christmas present.
Since the book originally came out in 1990 I am reading it twenty years after everybody else.
It’s refreshing to read original thought so well expressed.
Extract:
“Moral codes are always obstructive, relative and man made. Yet they have been of enormous profit to civilisation. They are civilisation.”
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