books discussed in this essay:
Female Chauvinist Pigs:
Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture
by Ariel Levy
Free Press, 2005
224 pp., $35
Pornified: How Pornography
Is Transforming Our Lives,
Our Relationships, and Our Families
by Pamela Paul
Times Books, 2005
304 pp., $34
Oryx and Crake
by Margaret Atwood
McClelland & Stewart, 2003
378 pp., $38
