There is such a thing as seduction, and it needs encouragement rather than discouragement in our puritanical Anglo-American world.

Now that virtually every career is an option for ambitious girls, it can no longer be considered regressive or reactionary to reintroduce discussion of marriage and motherhood to primary education. We certainly do not want to return to the simplistic duality of home economics classes for girls and wood shop for boys.

Sex at age 90 is like trying to shoot pool with a rope.

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.

Every month, it is woman's fate to face the abyss of time and being, the abyss which is herself.

They do not understand the fragility of civilization and the constant nearness of savage nature.

Obama's folksy come-on is as bad as Madonna's faux British - and both are in need of fresh inspiration.