More stuff from AzCentral on the pornification of culture, including porn and bingo. Porn and bingo? .
The piece covers two new books – Pamela Paul’s Pornified (mentioned previously on Pornlit) and Ariel Levy’s Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture
Here’s what the article says about the latter book: “Levy comes from a traditional feminist viewpoint. She goes on location with a “Girls Gone Wild” video shoot and talks to teenage girls about dressing “skanky” to get boys’ attention, stalking what she calls the Female Chauvinist Pig: a cohort of young women who live life like a frat party. She’s told that this “raunch culture” is progressive and empowering to women, and that she just doesn’t get it.
She retorts that she has no problem with sexual freedom and equality, but raunch culture celebrates a very narrow, very commercial view of sex, and of women: breast implants, strip clubs, Playboy and wet T-shirt contests – “women as consumers and women as things to be consumed,” Levy writes. She quotes author Erica Jong, certainly not someone known for her prudery: “Being able to have an orgasm with a man you don’t love or having ‘Sex and the City’ on television, that is not liberation.” ” More
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