Pornography reveals that male pleasure is inextricably tied to victimizing, hurting, exploiting; that sexual fun and sexual passion in the privacy of the male imagination are inseparable from the brutality of male history. The private world of sexual dominance that men demand as their right and their freedom is the mirror image of the public world of sadism and atrocity that men consistently and self-righteously deplore. It is in the male experience of pleasure that one finds the meaning of male history.

Men have an obsession for wanting to know things that will upset them.

I'm a study of a man in chaos in search of frenzy.

Masculinity is tragic. Masculinity is a lifelong struggle, a gauntlet run against nature ad other men to demonstrate virility and prove one's worthiness as a man in the eyes of other men. Masculinity is a challenge to honor that ends only in death- a challenge to win coupled with a guarantee that, eventually, even the best man will lose.

Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering...

Manhood is what we profess, and what we try to get across.

It would be far easier to go, 'Oh, I wish I loved women,' but I don't. I love the way a man thinks. I love the way a man smells. I love the way men look. And I'm hooked on the male physique--hooked on it.

I love to lose myself in other men's minds.

Obsession is the wellspring of genius and madness.

I am constantly amazed by man's inhumanity to man.

I love to lose myself in other men's minds

The oppressed find in the oppressors their model of 'manhood.'

How I wished for manhood and the opportunity to wreak my vengeance on my country's oppressors

Years ago, manhood was an opportunity for achievement, now it is a problem to be overcome.