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- W2003251824 abstract "Marilyn vos Savant, the smartest woman in the world, recently noted in Parade magazine that Americans object more to explicit visual representations of sex than of violence because unlike violence, sex on the screen cannot be faked. We do not see a representation, but the thing. Although Savant naively distinguishes between reality and representation, she describes Jean Baudrillard's notion of simulation: a presumably unreal action whose is identical to the real (Baudrillard 254). The sex acts Savant describes are in one sense not real, in that the actors would not be so engaged if not for the writer, the director, etc. But Savant's claim highlights the problem pornography raises for feminists: pornography blurs the difference between reality and representation, not only because the actors might be really engaged in sex, but because the effect on the audience is likewise real. Real sexual relations, feminists argue, have been written and directed for centuries by male privilege.1 In Catherine Texier's Panic Blood and Kathy Acker's In Memoriam to Identity, the writers' most recent novels, we find pornographic sex simulated, in part to criticize real gender relationships. Characters in both engage in some form of simulated sex: Acker's Airplane works in a sex show, Texier's Eva does phone sex for extra money. In both novels, the faked sex becomes quite and its consequences potentially devastating. If, as Baudrillard claims and these novels demonstrate, simulations have marked reality-effects and so cannot be con-" @default.
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- W2003251824 title "Simulating Sex and Imagining Mothers" @default.
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