Sexual Lens In Pop Culture

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Simon, in his book, introduced six sexual lenses that we could use in order to identify and understand the sexual tendency of current culture. In this chapter, he identified "Covenantal Lens," "Procreative Lens," "Romantic Lens," "Plain Sex Lens," "Power Lens," and finally, "Expressive Lens." I believe that it is very hard for us to find a single lens to identify the sexual tendency of the pop culture as many of these lenses are intertwined and progressive to one another. I believe, however, that the most of pop culture depicts "Plain Sex Lens" on its very foundation. Most famous example is the movie name "50 shades of grey." The actor and actress in the movie first start their sexual relationship based on "Romantic Lens" as they fall in love

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