Just a little raunch With Your Libertine Text

In his February 24 article, Chris Patalano recorded how my former classmate, Ariel Levy, worries that in our society “women appear sexy at the expense of being sexual.” Yet she seems ignorant of how female sexuality manifests itself for the vast majority of women in this country. Levy wants women to go ahead and be libertines, to emphasize “pleasure and hedonism,” but apparently only if they can do so in a masculine mode. For a woman to assume a fundamentally feminine—i.e. attractive/enticing—role in the ensuing carnival of debauchery makes her a “bimbo.” Why should it surprise that women continue to be feminine at the same time that a permissive culture tells them that nothing is taboo? Since pornography is apparently fine, what would “non-bimbo” porn look like (and who would watch it)? As a society our focus should be on comporting ourselves in an appropriate and civilized manner, not on fretting over the particular manifestations of self-degradation and indulgence.