I just finished reading Ariel Levy's article on Raunch Culture ("Get a Life, Girls"), and she makes an interesting point about how we separate sexy from sex. (Mostly because sex is a commercial image now.) She used Paris Hilton as a prime example, which was awesome, and she talks about how Paris Hilton looks sexy during photos, but isn't sexual in ( Read more... )

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I've spent the entire evening reading articles about sex, sexuality and gender (again, instead of doing what I should be, which is--in different levels of importance--either homework or finishing up fic), and I came across a series of articles that really were eye-opening, because I've thought about the topic in an abstract way but never actually ( Read more... )