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"Rape is an act of desperation, a confession of envy and exclusion. All men- even, I have written, Jesus himself- began as flecks of tissue inside a woman's womb. Every boy must stagger out of the shadow of a mother goddess, whom he never fully escapes....Women have it. Men want it. What is it? The secret of life..."--"No Law in the Arena", p. 32 by Camille Paglia

"Patriarchy, routinely blamed for everything, produced the birth control pill, which did more to free contemporary women than feminism itself."--"No Law in the Arena", p. 38 by Camille Paglia

"I am a pornographer." -- "The Return of Carry Nation" (1992) by Camille Paglia

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Vamps and Tramps is a 1994 anthology book of cultural criticism by American writer Camille Paglia, a collection of her writings since her previous essay collection Sex, Art, and American Culture.

The mixed critical response generally concurred that too much was written on too wide a variety of topics. The book included a theoretical manifesto about sex, "No Law in the Arena", as well as transcripts of her previous TV and film appearances, including her 1993 collaboration with Glenn Belverio in his short film "Glennda and Camille Do Downtown," which played at the Sundance Film Festival and won first prize for best short documentary at the Chicago Underground Film Festival.

The book was a bestseller and exposed a wide readership to her scathing views on contemporary matters such as feminism, academia, the Clinton presidency, the life of Jacqueline Kennedy, and the career of Barbra Streisand. Paglia explains her title thus:

"I want a revamped feminism. Putting the vamp back means the lady must be a tramp. My generation of Sixties rebels wanted to smash the bourgeois codes that had become the authoritarian totems of the Fifties. The 'nice' girl with her soft, sanitized speech and decorous manners had to go. Thirty years later, we're still stuck with her — in the official spokesmen and the anointed heiresses of the feminist establishment...Equal opportunity feminism, which I espouse, demands the removal of all barriers to woman's advance in the political and professional world — but not at the price of special protections for women which are infantilizing and anti-democratic."
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The Penis Unsheathed -- No Law in the Arena: a Pagan Theory of Sexuality. 1. Introduction: The Horses of Passion. 2. Sex Crime: Rape. 3. Sex War: Abortion, Battering, Sexual Harassment. 4. Sex Power: Prostitution, Stripping, Pornography. 5. Rebel Love: Homosexuality -- 6. Conclusion: Citizens of the Empire -- The Nursery-School Campus: The Corrupting of the Humanities in the U.S. -- Gay Stalinism -- The Return of Carry Nation: Catharine MacKinnon and Andrea Dworkin -- The New Sexism: Liberating Art and Beauty -- An Open Letter to the Students of Harvard -- On Censorship -- Woody Allen Agonistes. Our Tabloid Princess: Amy Fisher -- The Female Lenny Bruce: Sandra Bernhard -- Brooklyn Nefertiti: Barbara Streisand -- Lolita Unclothed -- Diana Regina -- Television and the Clintons -- Kind of a Bitch: Why I Like Hillary Clinton -- Hillary in the Spotlight -- Laying the Ghost of Anita Hill: Bill Clinton and Paula Jones -- Mona Lisa in Motion: Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis -- The Saint.

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