Page 114 - Push Back

(Joseph’s Comment: In describing lesbian encounters as “fruitful Sapphic idylls” Ms. Paglia is
revealing her aberrant personal view that homosexual experiences are beneficial. Nevertheless,
she recognizes that the psychiatric and counseling communities are pushing a demented ideology
upon youths who experiment sexually, by seeking to convince them that they are homosexuals,
locking them into an identity that they are told cannot be changed. The author then speaks to the
issue of lesbians increasingly employing sex toys modeled after the male body in order to
stimulate themselves. She suggests that such women reject men for reasons other than sex, and
they need to deal with the true root of their rejection. She reasons that if a woman is not
antagonistic toward men, and is stimulated by toys modeled after the male sex organ, they might
as well get a real man. Her arguments are quite rational and reveal a cognitive dissonance, and
underlying dishonesty, among the homosexual community.)

Visiting the elite schools on my lecture jaunts I am struck by how the most militantly gay,
Foucault-addled male students look like orphans, with 12-year-old Huck Finn clothing styles and
haunted, starved eyes. My friend Robert Caserio says, 'Queer theory isolates them from reality.'
This is one reason why gay studies in its current separatist form, must be opposed...

It is ridiculous to assert that gay men are interested only in other gay men and would never ogle
straight men in barracks showers. When I heard this on TV I burst out laughing. Anyone who
belongs to a health club knows better. Sexual tension and appraisal are constants, above all
among gay men, who never stop cruising everything in sight. Seduction of straight studs is a
highly erotic motif in gay porn...

Do we want the sexes forever divorced, in a state of permanent alienation? Lesbianism is
increasing, since anxious unmasculine men have little to offer. Male homosexuality is increasing,
because masculinity is in crisis... Current gay cant insists that homosexuality is 'not a choice,' ...
but there is an element of choice in all behavior, sexual or otherwise. It takes an effort to deal
with the opposite sex; it's safer with your own kind.

(Joseph’s Comment: The author here touches on a subject that I believe needs further
exploration. A leading contributor to homosexual behavior among both men and women, is an
absence of true masculinity among males. Men are not living in conformity to Yahweh’s design
for men. They are failing at being the spiritual leaders, moral shepherds, and the defenders of
truth that they were designed to be. Adam was not deceived in the Garden of Eden (I Timothy
2:14), which makes his participation in sin all the more egregious. His was a true moral failing.
When men fall short of the image and likeness of God, they become less desirable to the soul of
the woman. If Christ is the image of the perfected Bridegroom, the ultimate husband, then
antichrist must be an undesirable image for woman. Those males manifesting this spirit would
logically have less desire to enter into a holy and complete union with the woman, a union that
includes, but transcends, the sexual relationship. The prophet Daniel describes one antichrist
ruler in the following words. “And he will show no regard for the gods of his fathers or for the
desire of women...” Daniel 11:37)