Arriving in the aftermath of the “political correctness” and “anti-sex feminism” decade of the 1980s, Camille Paglia’s “Sexual Personae” (1990) appeared as a bracing art historical treatise, remembered mainly for popularizing Friedrich Nietzsche’s “Apollonian” vs. “Dionysian” dichotomy (logic, analysis and organization vs. the emotion, irrationality and chaos), with the underlying argument that modern political and academic discourse was woefully at odds with the genuine experience and practice of sex.