Ariel Levy is an American staff writer at The New Yorker magazine and the author of the books The Rules do Not Apply and Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture. In this book Levy writes about raunch culture is today’s society. Levy refers to “Raunch Culture” as “the highly sexualized American culture in which women are objectified, objectify one another, and are encouraged to objectify themselves”.
Levy states in her book “If Male Chauvinist Pigs were men who regarded women as pieces of meat, we would outdo them and be Female Chauvinist Pigs: women who make sex objects of other women and of ourselves."
She discusses how women are using their sexuality as power and therefore have begun re-objectifying themselves and becoming the stereotypes women for
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Why is labouring to look like Pamela Anderson empowering? And how is imitating a stripper or a porn star--a woman whose job is to imitate arousal in the first place -- going to render us sexually liberated? 'Raunchy' and 'liberated' are not synonyms. It is worth asking ourselves if this bawdy world of boobs and gams we have resurrected reflects how far we've come, or how far we have left to go." Levy is not denying women of their sexuality or criticising women for being sexual beings rather she is saying that women shouldn’t be sexual for the sake of men or for the sake of society. Being sexual should be about sexual pleasures for women instead of how women being sexual is seen through the eyes of men and other women, something that “Girls Gone Wild”, strip clubs and the porn industry has ignored. Levy says that “it would truly be an expression of sexuality for women to enjoy sex, not just to show it off” as the current perceived “expression of sexuality” is just a bunch of stereotypes and gender roles being manifested into society, something that has been around