Welcome back! In this episode, I’m discussing the recent discourse surrounding Sabrina Carpenter, using her marketing and brand as a case study to discuss female choice sexuality and the sex icon blonde bombshells that have come before her. Her recent album cover, but more specifically the alternate version supposedly “approved by god,” references a picture of Marilyn Monroe, an icon of the sexual liberation movement who unfortunately cannot be mentioned without her male icon counterpart, Hugh Hefner. Sabrina’s lolita, sexy baby aesthetic can also not be discussed without mention of incest, which is effectively the cradle of sexual politics, particularly in American culture. Is the recent uptick in women returning to “feminine” aesthetics rather just a result of men’s beloved fetishisation of childlike and paedophilic ideals? I also go into Dworkin’s idea of sexual intelligence, an integral but almost unattainable part of women’s rights, and how we can perhaps go about fixing the wrongs of the “unfinished” sexual liberation movement.
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References ~
Armstrong L, (1996) “Rocking The Cradle of Sexual Politics: What Happened When Women Said Incest” Addison Wesley Publishing Company
Dworkin A, (1978) “Right Wing Women” Perigee Books
Hurley J, (2024) “your fave is selling a pedophilic fantasy” Jade Fax, Substack
Perry L, (2022) “The Case Against the Sexual Revolution” Polity Books
Rush F, (1971) “The Sexual Abuse of Children: A Feminist Point of View” Speech, presented at 1971 New York Radical Feminists Rape Conference
Survivors’ Network (2023) “What we learned from Pamela Anderson’s ‘A Love Story’ Documentary”
