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As noted below, Sexual Personae earned sometimes scathing reviews.

Paglia responded by stating, " It was intended to please no one and to offend everyone.

The entire process of the book was to discover the repressed elements of contemporary culture, whatever they are, and palpate them.

One of the main premises was to demonstrate that pornography is everywhere in major art.

Art history as written is completely sex free, repressive and puritanical.

I want precision and historical knowledge, but at the same time, I try to zap it with pornographic intensity.

" At least part of the negative academic reception to Sexual Personae can be attributed to Paglia's ignoring such prominent structuralist / post-structuralist thinkers as Althusser, Derrida, Foucault and Lacan, knowledge of whom had become de rigueur in the academic humanities by the book's 1990 publication.