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Though there's a way in which she finds these affairs edifying and exciting, Annie said there's also a way in which they can feel "pathetic". "Sometimes, having this kind of sex, this shopping kind of sex, is based on insecurities for me...am-I-attractive insecurities." Sometimes what she really wants isn't sex but proof that she is as desirable, as sexual, as female as the Barbie dolls she played with as a child or the porn stars she toyed with as an adult.
    --excerpt from Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture by Ariel Levy