By Guest | Published:
October 14, 2009
This is an interview from Spiegel-Online, of the German-Turkish writer Seyran Ates. She discusses her new book, which describes the necessity of a sexual revolution in the Islamic world, the recent integration debate in Germany and the arrogance of German women’s rights activists.
Seyran Ates
SPIEGEL: Ms. Ates, in your controversial new book, you call for a sexual revolution in the Islamic world.
Ates: You don’t know how necessary that is.
SPIEGEL: But what exactly do you mean by a sexual revolution?
By Guest | Published:
October 8, 2009
This piece by Laurie Penny is cross-posted from Penny Red. It also comes with this warning from the author:
[This entry comes with a trigger warning for mention of rape and abuse involving young girls. It's also possibly the angriest post I've ever written.]
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Thanks to a new book, ‘The Lolita Effect’, and a kiddy-sized pole-dancing kit marketed to six year olds that got attention on both sides of the pond and, of course, Miley Cyrus, the ’sexualisation of young girls’ is in the press again. Cue a great deal of handwringing and think-of-the-children-isms in the same international press that, this same week, gave a good deal of coverage to child-rape apologists.
All of these stories are just begging, just laying back like the wanton little semiotic nymphets they are and begging to be illustrated with faux-naive photos of young girls in suggestive states of undress – or, more frequently and legally, parts of young girls. Merely, of course, to demonstrate how awful it all is.
