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"When I put my Sex book out, my mistake was that I naively thought
that everybody liked the same things I liked, and had the same sense of
humor I had, and was turned on by the same things, and I was really creating
in a vacuum. I was pushing the envelope with "Justify My Love," but when I
put out Sex, that's when the big steel doors came down on my head. It's
like, you can push the envelope, but you can't open the envelope.
There are the
people that liked the book and didn't like it just on a taste level, or
whatever. And then there are people who just were horrified by it and didn't
even bother to look at it or read it. I divide my career from before and
after the Sex book. Up until then, I really was just being a creative person
working and doing things that inspired me and I thought would inspire other
people. After that, I suddenly had a whole different point of view about
life in general. Ever since that book, I think there are the people that
look at me and go, "Oh man, she just went off the deep end, she went too
far. I can't deal with her, she disgusts me." And then I think there are
other people who go, even if they didn't like the Sex book, "Oh well, she
survived that and she goes on and she continues to do what she wants to do,"
in spite of the fact that the press beat the shit out of me. Very few people
came to my rescue. It was an incredibly eye-opening experience.
You can't be a pop star and have an opinion. Some unknown entity can put out
a magazine with erotic photographs, but a famous person young girls identify
with can't do that and make money off of it. I think men can deal with those
fantasies when a man is in control of them and in charge, like your father
and his magazine. It's a man's point of view, it's a man's fantasy. Sex was
my fantasy, and I made money off of it. That is a no-no.
Then there was just a lot of imagery that grossed people out in the book. A
lot of people were really disgusted with the men that were together with
men. They were fine, you know, with my naked ass all over the place."
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