III. This time around I started off in the bookstore and came across this month's Cosmo. Rihanna is on the cover, surrounded by several catchy headings such as "21 naughty SEX TIPS", "5 things never to tell your guy", and "your va-jay-jay". I think that looking at this magazine in a feminist perspective would be very interesting, because basically Cosmo supports women to have sex "like men", which in fact, is contradictory to female needs. Plante, in her book "Sexualities in Context" talks about how Cosmo is actually degrading rather than empowering for women. I think that if I were to look at an issue, or a section in a few different magazines and look at how the rhetoric, language and images are either empowering, degrading, confining etc to women.
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So would you use one specific issue of Cosmo as the primary source?
I see here that you're already in conversation with secondary sources via Plante. Be careful of coming to the paper with unquestioned assumptions: "have sex 'like men,' which in fact, is contradictory to female needs."
Can we generalize so as to say that men have one version of sex and women another (physically, of course, but the term 'needs' sounds like a term of emotions to me)?
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