“All human activities are equivalent … and … all are on principle doomed to failure.”
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“The search for freedom through sex is doomed to failure.”
Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990), p. 4
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Context: The dishonesty and speciousness of the feminist rape analysis are demonstrated by its failure to explore, or even mention, man-on-man sex crimes. If rape were really just a process of intimidation of women by men, why do men rape and kill other men? The deceptively demure persona of the soft-spoken, homosexual serial-murderer Jeffrey Dahmer, like that of the handsome, charming Ted Bundy, should warn everyone that we still live in a sexual jungle.
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