In the real world, very smart people fail and mediocre people rise. Part of what makes people fail or succeed are skills that have nothing to do with… - Camille Paglia

Because of the nature of the penis, men have performance anxiety, whereas no woman ever has to prove herself in this way. So men's egos are totally involved in performance, in doing, achieving. An erection is a kind of achievement. So is peeing. As I've said, a boy has to learn to aim in order to no longer be infantile. So it's an accomplishment. The male orgasm is short-lived and transient — and that's the irony of men's sexuality. It's ironic that feminism looks at the penis as power and violence when in fact it is very weak.

Every man harbors an inner female territory ruled by his mother, from whom he can never entirely break free.

For me, the Profumo affair symbolizes the evanescence of male government compared to women’s cosmic power.