“I have been studying it [sexuality] since before it became fashionable.”

— Camille Paglia

When asked "why you write about sex?" Paglia on AOL (11 September 1996) http://privat.ub.uib.no/BUBSY/aolpag.htm
Context: I have been studying it [sexuality] since before it became fashionable. At the Yale Grad School, for example, where I was from 1968 to 1972, I was literally the only person in the humanities departments doing a dissertation on sex — hard to believe now, but I was a real pioneer and I took the career hit for it. It was considered tacky, low, not serious — my dears, I was absolutely scouring the Yale archives for every bit of dirt on homosexuality, sadomasochism, transvestism — you name it. That is the basis of the research for my first book, Sexual Personae, which was my dissertation.

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