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Sex, Erotica and Body of Evidence (Erotic 90’s, Part 10)

You Must Remember This

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The Rise and Fall of Madonna's Feminism

In 1990, Camille Poglia published an op-ed in The New York Times declaring that Madonna was a true feminist. In Playboy, Kelly came up with a new adjective for Madonna's version of feminism: Slut feminism. A slut feminist was actually worse than a regular feminist, because she could confuse men into getting aroused before they realized she was going to use her power to take away their power. It is a cheap and tawdry little philosophy, born of anger, cynicism and on-wee, just right for today.

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