"At present, mainstream popular culture force-feeds us a steady diet of stories of domination and violation, which leaves us starved for stories that foster hope for ourselves and our future..."
     --Transforming a Rape Culture, Buchwald, Fletcher & Roth 1993

"Through the '80s, the designer kept things pumped with his smoldering perfume ads. The suggestion of sex reached a feverish pitch with his Obsession ads featuring nude, health-spa carved bodies...In Klein's latest sex-charged ad campaign, Mark shares the limelight with Kate Moss, a 17-year-old waiflike child-woman who models with him. Both are bare-chested.
     Why? 'In my imagination I'm sure there are times women wear jeans and don't have tops on,' Klein says."
     --"Selling undies to the MTV generation", Trish Donnally, The News & Observer, 12/13/92

". . . Like a piece of fruit, they are cheaper for being slightly damaged; like all little girls, they seem easier to manipulate than grown-up women. . . "
     --New York Times