The only clueless one in here is you.
Camille Paglia is a genius that mediocre people mock because she is way above them.
I did not say she had to be 40 to understand it. It's a novel for 18 year olds, she thinks she is very smart yet she is impressed by something like Memoirs of a Geisha, shows she isn't as smart as she thinks she is, her genius is definitely not intellectual, if she has it at all.
Tom Of Finland and Mapplethorpe didn't originate anything.
Words, Waiting and Secret Garden are awful and the reason why Erotica is her least popular album, even today. It hasn't grown in stature at all with the years and it's because of the non- single tracks.
You are the one that lives under a rock. No headline ever called her a slut.