Here’s something I don’t get about Sex in America

From left to right to Tom Wolfe, everybody seems to be bemoaning adolescent hook-up culture in the U.S. Fostered by the likes of »Girls Gone Wild« and challenged only by the visions of chastity brought forth by »High School Musical« and »Twilight«, the narrative goes, American popular culture endorses promiscuity — and wreaks havoc with fragile teenage minds. Alright.

However, if Debbie does Dallas and everybody else, why would there be the need for a women’s version of Viagra, a pill that’s being discussed right now?

Camille Paglia has an answer to that question. Popular culture, she argues in the »New York Times«, is marginalizing voluptuous bodies, casting a spell of neo-Puritan, desexualized adrogynity over the States, killing all erotic appetite. American popular culture endorses frigidity — and wreaks havoc with fragile Middle Class American minds.

Honestly, I don’t get this. Wouldn’t you think both notions are mutually exclusive?