WILDE IMMORALITY

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.

-Oscar Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891,
preface

IDLE FANTASIES

All universal moral principles are idle fantasies.

-The Marquis de Sade

POISONING EROS

Christianity gave Eros poison to drink; he did not die of it, certainly, but degenerated to Vice.

-Friedrich Nietzsche: Beyond Good and Evil

PROPAGANDA AND STUFF

It will require a courageous grasp of the politics and economics, as well as the cultural propaganda, of heterosexuality to carry us beyond individual cases or diversified group situations into the complex kind of overview needed to undo the power men everywhere wield over women, power which has become a model for every other form of exploitation and illegitimate control.

- Adrienne Rich: Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence

DENIAL

Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.

–Albert Camus

VIOLENT LOVE

As the interviews in the book Men on Rape demonstrate, rapists often report feeling that they were attacked by their victims and that the rape was a way of regaining lost control or seeking justifiable revenge.

-Luke, Violent Love: Hunting, Heterosexuality, and the Erotics of Men's Predation

THE SUBVERSIVE SIDE OF SEX

Sex is the one area that is innately subversive to the rules and regulations of society, and pornography is the celebration of the subversive side of sex.

-Ford, A History of X: 100 Years of Sex in Film