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"Images that flatten sex into "beauty," and flatten the beauty into something inhuman, or subject her to eroticized torment, are politically and socioecono

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"The last thing the consumer index wants men and women to do is figure out how to love one another: The null.5-trillion retail-sales industry depends on sexual estrangement between men and women, and is fueled by sexual dissatisfaction. Ads do not sell sex--that would be counterproductive, if it meant that heterosexual women and men turned to one another and were gratified. What they sell is sexual discontent." "though the survival of the planet depends on women's values balancing men's, consumer culture depends on maintaining a broken line of communication between the sexes and promoting matching sexual insecurities. Harley-Davidsons and Cuisinarts stand in for maleness and femaleness. But sexual satisfaction eases the stranglehold of materialism, since status symbols no longer look sexual, but irrelevant. Product lust weakens where emotional and sexual lust intensifies."