"Aldous Huxley once said that an intellectual was someone who had found something more interesting than sex; in Indology, an intellectual need not make that choice at all."

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Wendy Doniger, “When a lingam is Just a Good Cigar: Psychoanalysis and Hindu Sexual Fantasies,” in The Psychoanalytic Study of Society, Vol. 18: Essays in Honor of Alan Dundes, ed. L. Bryce Boyer, Ruth M. Boyer, and Stephen M. Sonnenberg, 81.**Doniger, “When a lingam is Just a Good Cigar,” 279 and 288. also quoted in Antonio de Nicolas, Krishnan Ramaswamy, and Aditi Banerjee (eds.) (2007), Invading the Sacred: An Analysis Of Hinduism Studies In America (Publisher: Rupa & Co., p. 196