The Wild Man, we could also say, represents the positive side of male sexuality. The hair that covers his whole body is natural like a deer’s or a mammoth’s. He has not been clean shaven out of shame, and his instincts have not been so suppressed as to produce the rage that humiliates women. The Wild Man’s sexuality does not feed on the feminine or pictures of the feminine; it resonates also to hills, clouds, and ocean. The native American has much Wild Man in him, and it comes out in love of ordinary things. Lame Deer mentions over and over in his autobiography that the Indian experiences the
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