In the struggle over sex, these choices are where the struggle lies: Who decides reproductive rights who decides when and how breasts might be exposed who decides who can say vagina and where who decides who is a slut and who must be punished with hard labor for asserting their right to define their own sexual and artistic identities. This turns a potentially liberating sexual revolution into yet another marketable consumer product that hypnotizes people and is creating new health and sexual problems around libido, rather than setting them free. Indeed, its addictive effects, in terms of new neuroscientific discoveries, actually turns out to be a kind of drug or sedative. Porn 24-7 doesn’t threaten social control. What is shocking and obscene is when a serious person – a legislator – dares to take back ownership of her own self, with the scandalous words “my vagina.” The issue is not the vagina, but who gets to say what becomes of it and who owns it. Legislating the most intimate aspects of women’s reproductive lives, all the way to imposing transvaginal probes on them – as states are doing across the country – isn’t shocking or obscene, because it is about taking away sexual control from women of their own bodies. Staging a strip performance is not disruptive to social order in Moscow, but three punk poets using their sexuality to make a satirical comment about Russian leader Vladimir Putin is destabilizing and must be punished. Rather, what is still scandalous to our culture is when women take ownership of their own bodies. Indeed, the female body has never been so commodified before, and female sexuality has never been so readily consumable in sanitized, corporatized formats such as pornography. In a hypersexualized culture, in which porn is available 24-7, it is not female nudity – or discussion about vaginas or breasts or “pussy riots” – that is scandalous. Vagina enters stage left – or is it right? We are at an important crossroads in which it is becoming clearer to women around the world that, as one feminist artist put it, “your body is a battleground.” Her Scorsese coup – for which she mastered a Brooklyn accent, she told Kimmel, by imagining she was wearing acrylic nails – comes hot on the heels of a role in Richard Curtis's English time-travel rom-com About Time, and on the back of a lead role in the Mad Men-esque TV series Pan Am, about the early glamorous days of international jet travel.Young women in Tahrir Square protesting in the Arab Spring were punished by imprisonment – and vaginal exams by armed strangers for “virginity tests.” This is not so surprising when you understand the delicate brain-vagina connection that my new book documents – female sexuality around the world is targeted because through traumatizing the vagina, you can intimidate women on multiple other levels. Have you ever seen that movie where she is possessed? It was like that and then he signed me and here we are doing Wolf of Wall Street." "And then I just spewed up four pounds of spaghetti bolognese, like projectile. After a 311-episode apprenticeship on Neighbours playing Donna Freedman (her first appearance was in June 2008, her last in January 2011), Gold Coast-raised Robbie looks well-positioned for a crack at the big time.Īlthough she confessed to Kimmel that she thought she blew a signing with her US agency 360 because she told the agent about a time that she ate 1.8 kilograms of spaghetti on the set of Neighbours. Indeed, that increasingly looks like the story of Robbie's Hollywood adventure. You will have no problems from here on out.” “The good news,” added Kimmel, “is that everything after this is gravy, everything after this is a Disney film by comparison. “I'm hoping I'm going to be home when it comes out and then I'm just going to fly the coop so I can miss the aftermath,” the 23-year-old said. Still, she planned to steer clear of her old haunts – including the small Queensland country town of Dalby, where she was born and her grandparents still live – until after the dust has settled. They were like, 'They can do that?' And I was like, 'Oh, technology these days, you wouldn't believe what they do in Hollywood'.”Įventually, Robbie said, she came clean to her family and urged them to read Belfort's memoir, on which the film is based, before seeing the film. “My family don't have anything to do with the entertainment industry so they totally bought it. The lie evolved to, 'Well actually it's a body double, and they just CGI-ed my head onto someone else'. “And then I thought, 'Well, the movie's going to come out and they'll see there's nudity', so I changed that.
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