Additional Critiques of Raunch Culture
Critics have particularly emphasized opinions that proponents of raunch culture conflate the idea of sexual liberation with the exploitation of women as commercialised objects. Through what is seen as bogus emphasis on a creed of 'empowerment' and choice, raunch culture's hypersexuality is internalised as a new public gender regime by a generation of women seen as colluding willingly with the male agenda—producing a sort of 'do-me feminism' as a mere recuperation of the traditional male sexual imagination.
Raunch culture is thus considered by postfeminists as a shift to a new and 'higher' form of exploitation by way of the internalization of the male gaze—facilitating the making of sex into a money-spinner and people into objects of consumption as part of the wider process of commodification of late modernity.
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