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Never," enjoins a women's magazine, "mention the size of his [penis] in public...and never, ever let him know that anyone else knows or you may find it shrivels up and disappears, serving you right." That quotation acknowledges that critical sexual comparison is a direct anaphrodisiac when applied to men; either we do not yet recognize that it has exactly the same effect on women, or we do not care, or we understand on some level that right now that effect is desirable and appropriate. A man is unlikely to be brought within earshot of women as they judge men's appearance, height, muscle tone, sexual technique, penis size, personal grooming, or taste in clothes--all of which we do. The fact is that women are able to view men just as men view women, as objects for sexual and aesthetic evaluation; we too are effortlessly able to choose the male "ideal" from a lineup and if we could have male beauty as well as everything else, most of us would not say no. But so what? Given all that, women make the choice, by and large, to take men as human beings first.


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Ultimately Wolf argues for a relaxation of normative standards of beauty. Wolf argues that women were under assault by the "beauty myth" in five areas: work religion sex violence and hunger. End of America was favorably reviewed in The New York Times by Stephen Holden as well as in Variety Magazine.

Wolf (born November 12 1962) is an American author and former political consultant. With the publication of the 1991 bestselling book The Beauty Myth Naomi Wolf became a leading spokesperson of what was later described as the third wave of the feminist movement.

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