Adult themes? Yeah, prolly...

Raunch culture draws caricatures of desire by Ariel Levy.

I quote:

The critic and author Natasha Walter noted after the publication of Naomi Wolf's new book last month there's "a general feeling that feminism had become tolerant of cultural sexism". And cultural sexism is linked to underlying political and economic inequalities that make it not so ironic or funny.
There is a widespread assumption that simply because my generation of women has the good fortune to live in a world touched by the feminist movement, that means everything we do is magically imbued with its agenda. But it doesn't work that way. "Raunchy" and "liberated" are not synonyms. It is worth asking ourselves if this bawdy world we have resurrected reflects how far we've come, or how far we have left to go.
Many women today seem to have forgotten that sexual power is only one, very specific, kind of power. And what's more, looking like a stripper or a Playboy bunny is only one, very specific, kind of sexual expression.
We have to ask ourselves why we are so focused on silent girly girls in g-strings faking lust. This is not a sign of progress, it's a testament to what's still missing from our understanding of human sexuality with all of its complexity and power. We are still so uneasy with the vicissitudes of sex that we need to surround ourselves with caricatures of female hotness to safely conjure up the concept of "sexy". It's kind of pathetic.
Sex is one of the most interesting things we as humans have to play with, and we've reduced it to polyester underpants and implants. We are selling ourselves unbelievably short.

*My bolds, btw...

Ahh, I could just quote the whole article here... It's fantastic.

Most of all, it's true. We're sort of getting this pre-packaged American idea of what sex is or is not thanks to TV and music and stuff like that, which presents a totally skewed view of all things sex (considering the almost phobia of the American public when it comes to that kind of thing). It's like sex is something that is to be scared of, so it has to be represented in a few ways that are non-threatening and reduce it all down to bodies (and "perfect" ones at that), forgetting about minds, reasons, interpretations, feelings, emotions, thoughts, desires...

Sex and sexuality is cut down to something sleazy where wearing the least means that at least you're getting male attention to stroke that ego of yours, like with the raunch culture, or made out to be something perfect and wonderful and connected where all involved leave satisfied and so on.

Raunch culture also takes away a lot of the "sacredness" and "specialness" of sex and sexuality, as well as their diversity. There are so many women who think that they have to do anything to please the guys they're with that just end up kinda demeaning them. I mean stuff like threesomes and so on. And the whole thing of, "Oh ya, I'm sooooooo bisexual" when it's like, "Right, and next month you'll be what according to what makes you think guys will give you some attention...?" 'Sides, it annoys people who are really bi who find that their partners automatically assume that they'll be up for a threesome with friend X, Y or Z (read a great article about that once in a Newcastle Uni student paper).

That's not liberation! Wake up and smell the low-grade lube! HELLO!? Why should it be all about pleasing the guys? It's like some kind of twisted version of what women used to be told about being lovely housewives so that they could please their husbands by having dinner on the table when he got home and never complaining about the kind of day they've had.

It's not liberation. It's stupidity.

Sex and sexuality is so much more. God-given and meant for us to enjoy (in the right kinda relationships), we should appreciate our individuality when it comes to all of that. It's not going to be perfect, we all like different things, the vast majority of women don't climax from penetrative sex alone, it's about feelings and emotions and connections with another person and that's really really really intimate, love, care, understanding, desires, quirks, blah blah blah.

Sexiness is in the mind far more than the body.

Okie, I've probably ranted enough, but yeah.

Just remember you don't have to be what society tells you to be. That changes all of the time. Just be honest to yourself and don't sacrifice personal integrity for some attention or whatever!

~end rant~

Adendum: refer to the Stupid Spoiled Wh*re episode of South Park with Paris Hilton and all of that sort of thing for a more amusing and twisted take on the matter :)
Good article by Emma Tom