Popular culture is the new Babylon, into which so much art and intellect now flow. It is our imperial sex theater, supreme temple of the western eye. We live in the age of idols. The pagan past, never dead, flames again in our mystic hierarchies of stardom.

You have to accept the fact that part of the sizzle of sex comes from the danger of sex. You can be overpowered.

Nothing is more hackneyed than the liberal dogma that shock value confers automatic importance on an artwork.

This was a good example of the fascist policing of public discourse in this country by nominal liberals who have become as unthinkingly wedded to dogma as any junior member of the Spanish Inquisition.

Male urination really is a kind of accomplishment, an arc of transcendance. A woman merely waters the ground she stands on.

before feminism was, Paglia was!

Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it.