Word: erotica
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With regard to our recent national history, Boogie Nights is, again, right on the money. Our collective capacity to learn a moral lesson is non-existent. The flesh, drugs and rock and roll of the 1970s gave way to the rape erotica, harder drugs and Boy George of the 1980s. When we hit rock bottom, rather than mend our ways, we opted to re-define some terms. Redemption was no longer associated with reformation. It came free with apology. Broken families were simply replaced by a new definition of family. For those who left their wives and children penniless...
Saturday's trip to Hubba Hubba was Baker's first foray into the world of erotica, but she ended up buying a $20 silver shirt that she says she can wear when she goes clubbing...
...shed its dweeby image, the reality has evolved along with the rest of pop culture. Readers can choose from a wide array of subgenres, including Tolkienesque fantasy, high-tech cyberpunk, horror sci-fi, feminist sci-fi, techno-thriller sci-fi, gay and lesbian sci-fi and even sci-fi erotica. Readership and authorship have broadened too: women now account for a third of the science-fiction audience, compared with just 10% in the '50s, and such writers as Ursula Le Guin and Octavia E. Butler (one of sci-fi's few African-American authors) are no longer considered invaders...
...manipulative, never go punished. Cinemax's Emmanuelle, for instance, is an ageless sorceress who spirits herself into the bodies of men and women all over the world (though mostly places like Cannes and Bali) to help them realize their romantic promise. Like most of the women who populate cable erotica, Emmanuelle limns the fantasies and calls the shots. There we have it: sex goddesses Gloria Steinem can love...
...producers from complacently cranking out the kind of wan, homogenized fare that characterized TV seasons past--and can still be enjoyed on Nick at Nite if one is so inclined. (But is there honestly any reason beyond nostalgia, graduate theses in popular culture or a lingering taste for boyhood erotica for anyone to watch the painfully lame Bewitched or I Dream of Jeannie?) The easygoing suburban blandness that Nick at Nite dines out on was owing to the fact that network TV was once the massiest mass medium ever invented. It still is, of course, but thanks to the increasing...