Spanking is
en vogue. Or at least it’s popular to write about women who like to bend
over. Jumping on the S&M bandwagon, writer Katie Roiphe’s cloying Newsweek cover story links wage-earning women with masochistic desire.
Roiphe reports that women comprise “almost 60 percent of college
students…they are close to surpassing men as breadwinners, with four in
10 working women now outearning their husbands [and] women are less
dependent or subjugated than before.” Yet, according to Roiphe, the
recent spate of SM-tinged releases such as Fifty Shades of Grey, HBO’s Girls, and David Cronenberg’s psychoanalytic bio-fiction A Dangerous Method
are evidence of a connection between women’s increasing clout and a
concomitant drive to get spanked. At a time when women are gaining
cultural and economic power, why are they seeking to be sexually
dominated? Roiphe wonders. READ MORE
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