ligence of women because there is no conviction that such intelligence was real and was destroyed. Intelligence is, in fact, seen as a function of masculinity, and women are despised when they refuse
to be lost.
Women have stupid ideas that do not deserve to be called ideas.
Marabel Morgan writes an awful, silly, terrible book in which she
claims that women must exist for their husbands, do sex and be sex
for their husbands. * D. H. Lawrence writes vile and stupid essays
in which he says the same thing basically with many references to
the divine phallus; t but D. H. Lawrence is smart. Anita Bryant
* See The Total Woman or the quotations from it in chapter 1 of this book.
Or: “In the beginning, sex started in the garden. The first man was all
alone. The days were long, the nights were longer. He had no cook, no
nurse, no lover. God saw that man was lonely and in need of a partner, so
He gave him a woman, the best present any man could receive” (The Total
Woman, [New York: Pocket Books, 1975], p. 129). “Spiritually, for sexual
intercourse to be the ultimate satisfaction, both partners need a personal
relationship with their God. When this is so their union is sacred and
beautiful, and mysteriously the two blend perfectly into one” (Total
Woman, p. 128).
t For instance: “Christianity brought marriage into the world: marriage as
we know it.. . . Man and wife, a king and queen with one or two subjects, and a few square yards of territory of their own: this, really, is marriage. It is true freedom because it is a true fulfillment for man,
woman, and children” (Sex, Literature, and Censorship [New York: The Viking Press, 1959], p. 98). “It is the tragedy of modern woman.. . . She is cocksure, but she is a hen all the time. Frightened of her own henny self,
she rushes to mad lengths about votes, or welfare, or sports, or business:
she is marvellous, out-manning the man.. . . Suddenly it all falls out of
relation to her basic henny self, and she realises she has lost her life. The
lovely henny surety, the hensureness which is the real bliss of every
female, has been denied her: she never had it.. . . Nothingness! ” (Sex,
Literature, and Censorship, pp. 4 9 - 5 0 ) . . . marriage is no marriage that is not basically and permanently phallic, and that is not linked up with the
sun and the earth, the moon and the fixed stars and the planets, in the
rhythm of days, in the rhythm of months, in the rhythm of quarters, of
years, of decades, of centuries. Marriage is no marriage that is not a correspondence of blood.. . . The phallus is a column of blood that fills the valley of blood of a woman” (Sex, Literature, and Censorship, p. 101). “Into
says that cocksucking is a form of human cannibalism; she decries
the loss of the child who is the sperm . * Norman M ailer believes
that lost ejaculations are lost sons and on that basis disparages male
homosexuality, masturbation, and contraception. t But Anita B ryant is stupid and Norman M ailer is smart. Is the difference in the style with which these same ideas are delivered or in the penis?
M ailer says that a great w riter writes with his balls; novelist
Cynthia Ozick asks M ailer in which color ink he dips his balls.
Who is smart and who is stupid?
the womb of the primary darkness enters the ray o f ultimate light, and
time is begotten, conceived, there is the beginning o f the end. We are the
beginning of the end. And there, within the womb, we ripen upon the
beginning, till we become aware of the end” (Reflections on the Death of a
Porcupine [Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1963], p. 7).
*For instance: “W hy do you think the homosexuals are called fruits? It’s
because they eat the forbidden fruit of life.. . . That’s why homosexuality
is an abomination o f God, because life is so precious to God and it is such
a sacred thing when man and woman come together in one flesh and the
seed is fertilized— that’s the sealing of life, that’s the beginning o f life. To
interfere with that in any w ay— especially the eating o f the forbidden
fruit, the eating o f the sperm— that’s why it’s such an abomination.. . . it
makes the sin o f homosexuality all the more hideous because it’s antilife,
degenerative” (Playboy, May 1978).
* For instance: “. . . but if you’re not ready to make a baby with that
marvelous sex, then you may also be putting something down the drain
forever, which is the ability that you had to make a baby; the most marvelous thing that was in you may have been shot into a diaphragm or wasted on a pill. One might be losing one’s future” (The Presidential Papers
[New York: Bantam Books, 1964], p. 142). “O f the million spermatozoa,
there may be only two or three with any real chance o f reaching the ovum
. . . [The others] go out with no sense at all of being real spermatozoa.
They may appear to be real spermatozoa under the microscope, but after
all, a man from Mars who’s looking at us through a telescope might think
that Communist bureaucrats and FBI men look exactly the same.. . .
Even the electron microscope can’t measure the striation o f passion in a
spermatozoon. O r the force o f its w ill” (The Presidential Papers, p. 143). “I
hate contraception.. . . There’s nothing I abhor more than planned parenthood. Planned parenthood is an abomination. I’d rather have those fucking Communists over here” (The Presidential Papers, p. 131). “I think