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![]() I find myself admiring her cutthroat approach of warning the reader that not every book will have happy endings. There will be no picture of a thin version of me, my slender body emblazoned across this book’s cover…Mine is not a success story. I liked how straight-forward and honest she was about the content of her memoir, stating that “This is not a weight-loss memoir. You feel like nothing, so you treat yourself like you are nothing because that’s what you feel what you deserve. I don’t know about you guys, but while I’ve never struggled with my weight, I know first hand about what trauma can do and how it can decimate a person until they are nothing. I felt a strong sense of understanding with this topic. So, she turned to food as a comfort, gaining more and more weight because “ I felt undesirable, then I could keep more hurt away” (Gay 15). In the beginning, she opens up with the struggle of dealing with her “wildly undisciplined” body and how she claims she is “trapped in in a cage” (Gay 17) because of the rape she suffered when she was twelve years old. Written by Roxane Gay, the author of Difficult Women, Hunger is a personal and harrowing tale that details her struggle with weight and how it has impacted her childhood, teens, and twenties. Hunger is probably one of the most heart-wrenching and powerful memoirs I have ever read. The decline of early-aughts horny culture can be attributed to a few main developments. Both shows employ intimacy coordinators, whom directors routinely bring in to protect actors “ doing hyper-exposed work.” ![]() ![]() Euphoria takes the opposite approach with flashy soft-core cinema, Skinemax with an HBO budget. Shows like Normal People are lauded for their “realistic” sex scenes - slow to start, sometimes nervous, and free from cinematic orgasms. Sex still sells, of course, but it’s packaged in self-awareness, layered with years of internet discourse about consent and kink and modern intimacy. Think: Axe commercials where women want to have sex with you at the grocery store, buddy comedies about taking a road trip to lose your virginity, Maxim covers teasing a list of the best outdoor gear with the tagline “ Spank Mother Nature!” Women sported low-rise pants and high-rise thongs, and men wore trucker hats that suggested careers in adult film. The sheer horniness of the aughts was unique from other eras in its total lack of subtlety, distinctly raunchy in a way that has fallen out of vogue. ![]() Photo-Illustration: by Vulture Photos by Warner Bros, Kevin Kane/WireImage, K Wright/New Line/Kobal/Shutterstock, Moviestore/Shutterstock and Summit Entertainmentĭuring the 2000s, pop culture’s depictions of sex tended toward goofy, as if Hollywood had been run by teenage boys with cartoon eyes popping out of their skulls and mile-long tongues hanging out of their mouths. ![]()
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