I feel more charity for a Mormon who has been taught from his birth that it is not only his right but his duty to God to enter int...o plural marriages, and that the man who has the greatest number of wives stands highest in God's favor, than I do for the man who has been taught from his cradle that the unpardonable sin is the desecration of womanhood; whose religious training and the moral code of civilization in which he is reared make it a crime to violate the Seventh Commandment and the established law of monogamy. Yet, judging from the testimony we see all about us--our ... lying-in and foundling hospitals and our fallen womanhood--the married or single man who lives a pure life is rare.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For above all, pornography is ritual. It is an enacted drama that is laden with meaning, which imparts a vision of the world. The ...altar for the ritual is a woman's body. And the ritual which is carried out on this altar is the desecration of flesh. Here, what is sacred within the body is degraded.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The bourgeoisie of the whole world, which looks complacently upon the wholesale massacre after the battle, is convulsed by horror ...at the desecration of brick and mortar.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... how have I used rivers, how have I used wars to escape writing of the worst thing of all--... not the crimes of other, not even our own death, but the failure to want our freedom passionately enough so that blighted elms, sick rivers, massacres would seem mere emblems of that desecration of ourselves?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The essence of the physicality of the most famous blonde in the world is a wholesome eroticism blurred a little round the edges by... the fact she is not quite sure what eroticism is. This gives her her tentative luminosity and what makes her, somehow, always more like her own image in the mirror than she is like herself.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »