Forty years ago Simone de Beauvoir sat in front of a blank sheet of paper at the Cafe des Deux Magots, on the Boulevard St. Germain in Paris, wanting to write about herself: I realized that the first question to …
Since at least antiquity, animals have been used to illustrate the “natural” reasons for human behavior in both the economic and sexual spheres. Our own follies and foibles are thereby projected onto the animal world, where they lead a colorful …
It may seem like a bad joke, but radical feminists sound like nothing so much as the thinkers they denounce as misogynists. In her most recent book, Adrienne Rich speaks of women’s “‘maternal’ or ‘nurturant’ spirit” as opposed to “rapism …
In his Three Essays on Sexuality, Freud summed up the views of two diverse cultures on love, his own and that of the ancient Greeks: The most striking distinction between the erotic life of antiquity and our own no doubt …
