7 Quotes & Sayings By Patrick Califiarice

Patrick Califia-Rice is the author of the groundbreaking gay male BDSM novel, "Masculine Space" (1999) and has written extensively on BDSM and alternative sexuality. He is the founder of the San Francisco based organization, The Center for Sex and Culture, which offers classes on sex education, sexuality, gender issues, and human sexuality. Patrick currently lives in San Francisco with his partner of two years.

...my body has becomeanother countryand I feel like an unemployedillegal...
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...my body has becomeanother countryand I feel like an unemployedillegal alienhow will I survivewhere I do not belong I belong with you Patrick CalifiaRice
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Why do I write? I write because I have to, because it is all I know, because it is my truth, because I am compelled, because I am driven to make the worldacknowledge that women like me exist, and we possess a dangerous wisdom. Patrick CalifiaRice
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Sex discrimination and hate crimes against women don't come from the leather community or its pornography. They occur within contexts like industrial capitalism and marriage that most people take for granted as if they had always existed, like gravity or continental drift. If feminism is going to change the world, it has to focus its critical lens on what most people think is normal, not on what most people think is abnormal. Patrick CalifiaRice
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I’m very fond of the concept of choice as the basis for sexual preference. This point of view is unpopular in an era in which every claim for gay rights is bases on pseudoscientific sulking about how we can’t help being queer; we’re just born that way. Thanks, but I don’t want to receive my civil rights as a charity fuck bequeathed on me by my genetic superiors. Patrick CalifiaRice
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S/M flies in the face of every attempt the state makes to appropriate our bodies, our labor, our time, and our imaginations.…the state is deeply offended by any group of people who say, 'My body doesn't belong to you, it belongs to me, so fuck off'… Patrick CalifiaRice