You see the same push towards unromantic sexual hedonism in the genital hats and costumes that supposed feminists are using these days.
Once, feminists protested against being seen as sex objects. They vilified the culture where women tried to be pretty and men were chivalrous. They have supplanted that culture with one where the only quality that one should notice about women is that they are raw sexual creatures—no beauty, no romance, just the raw basal desires. In this climate, it is no wonder that Hollywood highlights the vulgar and omits romance.
[[Robert Redford and Barbra Streisand in The Way We Were]]
just had to go and make me throw up in my mouth huh?
Fwiw, almost all she compares to were created in a time before effective drugs for STDs, birth control and easy divorce, and by people who were raised in the mindset of that time before.
In that time, many of the things that controlled their behavior were absolute truths with unpardonable consequences for violation, first by/from nature, then from society.
They politely behaved accordingly or else, and there were always a few “or else” cases around to remind the forgetful.
We’ve tamed those past controls and don’t have to be polite anymore. We can do whatever we want without consequence nowadays, but to all things a season.
She’s just noticing how some of the leaves have been changing for this one, because, global warming be damned, winter’s coming.
In her dotage, it appears Paglia’s finally beginning to grapple with how profoundly unwise her lifelong celebration of pornography has been. She can’t quite bring herself to renounce her long held position, but in this column for the first time she seems to recognize how dehumanizing, demeaning and boringly superficial pornography is.
Obviously, pornography is not about real people. It’s about uni-dimensional fantasies which block real people from doing the difficult work of knowing their sexual partner in a meaningful, multi-dimensional way.