After world war all we got was a lot of conformity, and conservatism and when I was in college at the university of Illinois the skirt lengths dropped instead of going up as they had during the roaring twenties and I knew that was a very bad sign, and it is symbolic and reflective of a very repressive time, and some of that was laid the feet of the cold war.

I think our society is fragmented. Messages regarding human sexuality have always been mixed in America. We are a schizophrenic nation. We were founded initially by Puritans, who escaped repression only to establish their own. Then the founding fathers gave us the Constitution to separate church and state. But the one thing that got left out of all those laws was human sexuality.

I've had death threats, but I've never been fearful for my life. Although I have traveled with security since the '60s.

I always think, quite frankly that pop culture is a lot more important than a lot of people realize.

What would make it very difficult to take society back to a repressive time would be technology. The arrival of the Internet.

I got married before I found myself. People should find themselves before they get married.

I think that sexual oppression and dictatorship go hand in hand.