Stupid people sometimes complain that there is no sex in Austen's novels. In fact, they are driven by the oceanic force of suppressed female desire, … - Germaine Greer

If we could stop thinking in terms of capture,
we would not have to fear the loosening of the captives’ bonds and
our failing beauty, and he would not have ulcers about being outstripped
or belittled

The housewife is an unpaid worker in her husband's house in return for the security of being a permanent employee: hers is the reductio ad absurdum of the employee who accepts a lower wage in return for permanence of his employment. But the lowest paid employees can be and are laid off, and so are wives. They have no savings, no skills which they can bargain with elsewhere, and they must bear the stigma of having been sacked.

The great erotic sculptures of Khajuraho are not depictions of life but emblems of the union of Shiv(a) and his Shakti, which result in the creation of all that is. The tourist is titillated by the linga that he sees around temples; his guide who is likely to be a divinity student, tirelessly repeats that they are emblems of universality, but his earnest insistence falls on deaf ears. The tourist assumes that the Hindus are as lecherous as he is.