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I believe that the shocking toll of AIDS on gay men in the West was partly due to their Seventies delusions that a world without women was possible. All-male energies, unbalanced and ravenous, literally tore the body apart.

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Camille Paglia
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: April 2
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