Word: rosin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Steinem and other critics, notably Hanna Rosin in the New Republic, point out that the sex in Hustler is, in fact, often portrayed as bad and ugly and dirty, with women depicted in rape fantasies, smeared with excrement, likened literally to pieces of meat. Of course, a lot of Hustler's grosser features, like the infamous woman-in-a-meat-grinder cover (glimpsed briefly in the film), are supposed to be, in perhaps the loosest sense of the word yet devised, satiric. But as is the case with a lot of humor that allegedly pokes fun at demeaning racial stereotypes...