The World's Oldest... Profession? - by Maia Mindel

A few weeks ago, Sabrina Carpenter announced her second album, Man’s Best Friend, by posting the image pasted above (which is the album’s cover) and people, to put it academically, lost their shit about it. The cover was instantly controversial, with most of the discussion being about whether it was glorifying the sexual exploitation of women, whether she was cleverly deconstructing misogynistic imagery (which is my read, but we have to listen to the album to know), or whether people who don’t like it are stuck up puritans who need to “catch a dick”. More broadly, she’s been controversial over her overtly sexual persona for a while, spawning what was perhaps the best tweet of 2024: The real point I’m trying to get to here isn’t really whether Sabrina Carpenter is a sex-positive “shero” or a misogynistic sex-crazed harlot. It’s the general question of whether feminism should be “sex positive” or not, and in particular the specific policy implications of whether the government should per

A few weeks ago, Sabrina Carpenter announced her second album, Man’s Best Friend, by posting the image pasted above (which is the album’s cover) and people, to put it academically, lost their shit about it. The cover was instantly controversial, with most of the discussion being about whether it was glorifying the sexual exploitation of women, whether she was cleverly deconstructing misogynistic imagery (which is my read, but we have to listen to the album to know), or whether people who don’t like it are stuck up puritans who need to “catch a dick”. More broadly, she’s been controversial over