“Sexual freedom, sexual liberation. A modern delusion. We are hierarchical animals. Sweep one hierarchy away, and another will take its place, perhaps less palatable than the first.”

Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990), p. 3

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