Promiscuity in men may cheapen love but sharpen thought. Promiscuity in women is illness, a leakage of identity.

In sex, man is driven into the very abyss which he flees. He makes a voyage to non-being and back.

My generation of the Sixties, with all our great ideals, destroyed liberalism, because of our excesses.

The plastic surgery issue is really looming because girls in the U.S. are getting it in their teens.

Eroticism is mystique; that is, the aura of emotion and imagination around sex. It cannot be 'fixed' by codes of social or moral convenience, whether from the political left or right. For nature's fascism is greater than that of any society. There is a daemonic instability in sexual relations that we may have to accept.

Madonna can still produce a catchy pop song, but she hasn't expanded her artistic vocabulary since the 1990s. Her concerts are glitzy extravaganzas of special effects overkill. She leaves little space in them for emotional depth or unscripted rapport with the audience.

When anything goes, it's women who lose.