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![Naomi Wolf](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1604650292i/22393._UY200_CR33,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Women who love themselves are threatening; but men who love real women, more so.”
― The Beauty Myth
― The Beauty Myth
![Naomi Wolf](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1604650292i/22393._UY200_CR33,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Beauty provokes harassment, the law says, but it looks through men's eyes when deciding what provokes it.”
― The Beauty Myth
― The Beauty Myth
![Naomi Wolf](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1604650292i/22393._UY200_CR33,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Men are visually aroused by women's bodies and less sensitive to their arousal by women's personalities because they are trained early into that response, while women are less visually aroused and more emotionally aroused because that is their training. This asymmetry in sexual education maintains men's power in the myth: They look at women's bodies, evaluate, move on; their own bodies are not looked at, evaluated, and taken or passed over. But there is no "rock called gender" responsible for that; it can change so that real mutuality--an equal gaze, equal vulnerability, equal desire--brings heterosexual men and women together.”
― The Beauty Myth
― The Beauty Myth
![Richard Pryor](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1208184963i/200010._UX200_CR0,50,200,200_.jpg)
“You can't talk about fucking in America, people say you're dirty. But if you talk about killing somebody, that's cool.”
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![Naomi Wolf](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1604650292i/22393._UY200_CR33,0,200,200_.jpg)
“A consequence of female self-love is that the woman grows convinced of social worth. Her love for her body will be unqualified, which is the basis of female identification. If a woman loves her own body, she doesn't grudge what other women do with theirs; if she loves femaleness, she champions its rights. It's true what they say about women: Women are insatiable. We are greedy. Our appetites do need to be controlled if things are to stay in place. If the world were ours too, if we believed we could get away with it, we would ask for more love, more sex, more money, more commitment to children, more food, more care. These sexual, emotional, and physical demands would begin to extend to social demands: payment for care of the elderly, parental leave, childcare, etc. The force of female desire would be so great that society would truly have to reckon with what women want, in bed and in the world.”
― The Beauty Myth
― The Beauty Myth
![Naomi Wolf](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1604650292i/22393._UY200_CR33,0,200,200_.jpg)
“The beauty myth is always actually prescribing behaviour and not appearance.”
― The Beauty Myth
― The Beauty Myth
![Naomi Wolf](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1604650292i/22393._UY200_CR33,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Women could probably be trained quite easily to see men first as sexual things. If girls never experienced sexual violence; if a girl's only window on male sexuality were a stream of easily available, well-lit, cheap images of boys slightly older than herself, in their late teens, smiling encouragingly and revealing cuddly erect penises the color of roses or mocha, she might well look at, masturbate to, and, as an adult, "need" beauty pornography based on the bodies of men. And if those initiating penises were represented to the girl as pneumatically erectible, swerving neither left nor right, tasting of cinnamon or forest berries, innocent of random hairs, and ever ready; if they were presented alongside their measurements, length, and circumference to the quarter inch; if they seemed to be available to her with no troublesome personality attached; if her sweet pleasure seemed to be the only reason for them to exist--then a real young man would probably approach the young woman's bed with, to say the least, a failing heart.”
― The Beauty Myth
― The Beauty Myth
![Naomi Wolf](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1604650292i/22393._UY200_CR33,0,200,200_.jpg)
“The Victorian woman became her ovaries, as today's woman has become her "beauty.”
― The Beauty Myth
― The Beauty Myth
![Andrea Dworkin](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1280820472i/23879._UX200_CR0,5,200,200_.jpg)
“Any violation of a woman's body can become sex for men; this is the essential truth of pornography.”
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![Naomi Wolf](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1604650292i/22393._UY200_CR33,0,200,200_.jpg)
“A man is unlikely to be brought within earshot of women as they judge men's appearance, height, muscle tone, sexual technique, penis size, personal grooming, or taste in clothes--all of which we do. The fact is that women are able to view men just as men view women, as objects for sexual and aesthetic evaluation; we too are effortlessly able to choose the male "ideal" from a lineup and if we could have male beauty as well as everything else, most of us would not say no. But so what? Given all that, women make the choice, by and large, to take men as human beings first.”
― The Beauty Myth
― The Beauty Myth
![Pope John Paul II](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1347415228i/6473881._UX200_CR0,40,200,200_.jpg)
“There is no dignity when the human dimension is eliminated from the person. In short, the problem with pornography is not that it shows too much of the person, but that it shows far too little.”
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![Naomi Wolf](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1604650292i/22393._UY200_CR33,0,200,200_.jpg)
“We do not have to spend money and go hungry and struggle and study to become sensual; we always were. We need not believe we must somehow earn good erotic care; we always deserved it.
Femaleness and its sexuality are beautiful. Women have long secretly suspected as much. In that sexuality, women are physically beautiful already; superb; breathtaking.
Many, many men see this way too. A man who wants to define himself as a real lover of women admires what shows of her past on a woman's face, before she ever saw him, and the adventures and stresses that her body has undergone, the scars of trauma, the changes of childbirth, her distinguishing characteristics, the light is her expression. The number of men who already see in this way is far greater than the arbiters of mass culture would lead us to believe, since the story they need to tell ends with the opposite moral.”
― The Beauty Myth
Femaleness and its sexuality are beautiful. Women have long secretly suspected as much. In that sexuality, women are physically beautiful already; superb; breathtaking.
Many, many men see this way too. A man who wants to define himself as a real lover of women admires what shows of her past on a woman's face, before she ever saw him, and the adventures and stresses that her body has undergone, the scars of trauma, the changes of childbirth, her distinguishing characteristics, the light is her expression. The number of men who already see in this way is far greater than the arbiters of mass culture would lead us to believe, since the story they need to tell ends with the opposite moral.”
― The Beauty Myth
![Naomi Wolf](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1604650292i/22393._UY200_CR33,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Cosmetic surgery processes the bodies of woman-made women, who make up the vast majority of its patient pool, into man-made women.”
― The Beauty Myth
― The Beauty Myth
![Andrea Dworkin](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1280820472i/23879._UX200_CR0,5,200,200_.jpg)
“Capitalism is not wicked or cruel when the commodity is the whore; profit is not wicked or cruel when the alienated worker is a female piece of meat; corporate bloodsucking is not wicked or cruel when the corporations in question, sell cunt; racism is not wicked or cruel when the black cunt or yellow cunt or red cunt or Hispanic cunt or Jewish cunt has her legs splayed for any man's pleasure; poverty is not wicked or cruel when it is the poverty of dispossessed women who have only themselves to sell; violence by the powerful against the powerless is not wicked or cruel when it is called sex; slavery is not wicked or cruel when it is sexual slavery; torture is not wicked or cruel when the tormented are women, whores, cunts. The new pornography is left-wing; and the new pornography is a vast graveyard where the Left has gone to die. The Left cannot have its whores and its politics too.”
― Pornography: Men Possessing Women
― Pornography: Men Possessing Women
![Christopher Hitchens](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1434046956i/3956._UY200_CR23,0,200,200_.jpg)
“She's got no charisma of any kind [but] I can imagine her being mildly useful to a low-rank porn director.”
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![Alexandra Katehakis](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1455826792i/3430484._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“When you are secure in yourself, know what turns you on, and enjoy watching your partner watch you experience sexual pleasure, you have a highly novel relationship grounded in love. The experience of seeing and being seen fuels lust and desire. This is exactly the way you integrate healthy lust and love into your sex life. It’s relational sex, not the old pornographic sex of past addictions.”
― Erotic Intelligence: Igniting Hot, Healthy Sex While in Recovery from Sex Addiction
― Erotic Intelligence: Igniting Hot, Healthy Sex While in Recovery from Sex Addiction
![Naomi Wolf](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1604650292i/22393._UY200_CR33,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Men who read it [beauty pornography] don't do so because they want women who look like that. The attraction of what they are holding is that it is not a woman, but a two-dimensional woman-shaped blank. The appeal of the material is not the fantasy that the model will come to life; it is precisely that she will not, ever. Her coming to life would ruin the vision. It is not about life.
Ideal beauty is ideal because it does not exist; The action lies in the gap between desire and gratification. Women are not perfect beauties without distance. That space, in a consumer culture, is a lucrative one. The beauty myth moves for men as a mirage, its power lies in its ever-receding nature. When the gap is closed, the lover embraces only his own disillusion.”
― The Beauty Myth
Ideal beauty is ideal because it does not exist; The action lies in the gap between desire and gratification. Women are not perfect beauties without distance. That space, in a consumer culture, is a lucrative one. The beauty myth moves for men as a mirage, its power lies in its ever-receding nature. When the gap is closed, the lover embraces only his own disillusion.”
― The Beauty Myth
![J.G. Ballard](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1615508740i/7010931._UY200_CR15,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Science is the ultimate pornography, analytic activity whose main aim is to isolate objects or events from their contexts in time and space. This obsession with the specific activity of quantified functions is what science shares with pornography.”
― The Atrocity Exhibition
― The Atrocity Exhibition
![Naomi Wolf](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1604650292i/22393._UY200_CR33,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Our society does reward beauty on the outside over health on the inside. Women must not be blamed for choosing short-term beauty "fixes" that harm our long-term health, since our life spans are inverted under the beauty myth, and there is no great social or economic incentive for women to live a long time. A thin young woman with precancerous lungs [who smokes to stay thin] is more highly rewarded socially that a hearty old crone. Spokespeople sell women the Iron Maiden [an intrinsically unattainable standard of beauty used to punish women for their failure to achieve and conform to it]and name her "Health": if public discourse were really concerned with women's health, it would turn angrily upon this aspect of the beauty myth.”
― The Beauty Myth
― The Beauty Myth
![Naomi Wolf](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1604650292i/22393._UY200_CR33,0,200,200_.jpg)
“What are other women really thinking, feeling, experiencing, when they slip away from the gaze and culture of men?”
― The Beauty Myth
― The Beauty Myth
![Virginie Despentes](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1260470353i/35668._UX200_CR0,36,200,200_.jpg)
“Consuming pornography does not lead to more sex, it leads to more porn. Much like eating McDonalds everyday will accustom you to food that (although enjoyable) is essentially not food, pornography conditions the consumer to being satisfied with an impression of extreme sex rather than the real.”
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![Naomi Wolf](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1604650292i/22393._UY200_CR33,0,200,200_.jpg)
“What editors are obliged to appear to say that men want from women is actually what their advertisers want from women.”
― The Beauty Myth
― The Beauty Myth
![Naomi Wolf](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1604650292i/22393._UY200_CR33,0,200,200_.jpg)
“The beauty myth sets it up this way: A high rating as an art object is the most valuable tribute a woman can exact from her lover. If he appreciates her face and body because it is hers, that is next to worthless. It is very neat: The myth contrives to make women offend men by scrutinizing honest appreciation when they give it; it can make men offend women merely by giving them honest appreciation. It can manage to contaminate the sentence "You're beautiful," which is next to "I love you" in expressing a bond of regard between a woman and a man. A man cannot tell a woman that he loves to look at her without risking making her unhappy. If he never tells her, she is destined to be unhappy. And the "luckiest" woman of all, told she is loved because she's "beautiful," is often tormented because she lacks the security of being desired because she looks like who she lovably is.”
― The Beauty Myth
― The Beauty Myth
![Erica Jong](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1286537368i/6085._UX200_CR0,45,200,200_.jpg)
“I don't know what the definition of pornography is and nobody else does either. Pornography is somebody else's erotica that you don't like. People are interested in their own sexuality and they've always reflected it in their art. End of story.”
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![Naomi Wolf](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1604650292i/22393._UY200_CR33,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Beauty" and sexuality are both commonly misunderstood as some transcendent inevitable fact; falsely interlocking the two makes it seem doubly true that a woman must be "beautiful" to be sexual. That of course is not true at all. The definitions of both "beautiful" and "sexual" constantly change to serve the social order, and the connection between the two is a recent invention.”
― The Beauty Myth
― The Beauty Myth
![Naomi Wolf](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1604650292i/22393._UY200_CR33,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Young women today feel vulnerable to judgment; if a harsh sentence is passed (or even suspected or projected), it is not her reputation that suffers so much as the stability of her moral universe. They did not have long to explore the sexual revolution and make it their own. Before the old chains had grown cold, while young women were still rubbing the circulation back into their ankles and taking tentative steps forward, the beauty industries levied a heavy toll on further investigations, and beauty pornography offered them designer bondage.”
― The Beauty Myth
― The Beauty Myth
![John Preston](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1434044159i/18082._CR0,16,200,200_.jpg)
“The way to get better pornography is to give pornographers better sex.”
― My Life as a Pornographer & Other Indecent Acts
― My Life as a Pornographer & Other Indecent Acts
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