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I just absolutely loathe the impartation of
moralistic terms of the Judaeo-Christian realm into
the pagan realm of mass media. Mass media are
completely amoral. It’s completely amoral. If you’re
going to use terms, you’re going to have to use
them from the history of paganism, not from the
history of Judaeo-Christianity. So that’s why I
titled the first chapter of my book Sexual
Personae — I called it “Nature” or “Sex and
Violence.” “Sex and Violence.” I believe that the sex
and violence which the moralists are always
deploring in mass media, that’s in fact the reality
about life, that the mass media is showing. Mass
media is showing sex and violence as the reality of