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I pretty much agree with everything that Plan9 posted. Excellent posting, dude.
Naomi Wolf has written some very interesting things, and her stuff on media literacy regarding advertising is generally quality. When it comes to sex, though, she has kind of a discomfort typical to many (but by no means all) 2nd-Wave Feminists with the notion that men might be horny enough to jack off a lot, and still want to have sex with their wives/girlfriends; and even more so that girls might like watching porn and masturbating a lot and being raunchy and earthy. One of the things I like best about 3rd-Wave Feminism is how much of a place there is for women feeling okay about their own horniness, and the freedom to express it with as much raunch and filth as they please, without having to feel either like a slut or like a betrayer of the Sisterhood-- that nastiness (in the best, happiest sense of the word) is not the sole property of men, but women can own it healthily also.
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Dull sublunary lovers love,
Whose soul is sense, cannot admit
Absence, because it doth remove
That thing which elemented it.
(From "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" by John Donne)
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