The Ladies Objet du Désir
posted by on February 11 at 11:32 AM
What I have said about Italian women…
..also goes for French women:
The idea that older women are desirable goes right to the top. Before Nicolas Sarkozy hooked up with his new bride, 40-year-old Carla Bruni, a French magazine suggested some matches for the newly divorced president, including 50-ish TV presenters, writers and an extremely buff sailing champion. After all, Sarkozy, 53, had just been dumped by his then 49-year-old wife Cecilia, who had famously obsessed him and who had had no trouble finding other suitors.It’s mostly a matter of mode, a matter of articulation, a matter of being the right or best way toward death. What America needs is a new mode, a new articulation, a post-Christian body and erotics.…This post-menopausal sexiness is palpable here. In the lingerie section of an upscale department store, I recently watched a gray-haired man earnestly inspecting the black lace bra and panties that his similarly aged companion had just picked out. “That’s just what’s needed,” he clucked, handing his credit card to the clerk.
…In the French version, women weren’t expected to forgo high heels and chivalry in exchange for equality. So it’s not surprising here when successful women retain their charms. In the United States, the two can seem mutually exclusive. The right-wing talk-show host Rush Limbaugh felt free to question Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s candidacy in December by sneering, “Will Americans want to watch a woman get older before their eyes on a daily basis?”…When the French writer Elisabeth Weissman interviewed dozens of older Frenchmen for the book “Un Âge Nommé Désir” (“An Age Named Desire”), she found that “they see in maturity a form of eroticism.” French Playboy’s photo spread on the 43-year-old Juliette Binoche in November carried text that gushed, “The more time passes, the more her inner beauty glows.” Wisdom — combined with regular exfoliation — is sexy here.
I love Juliette Binoche!
Mudede, you could do with some avodart. I suggest a mg per day.
expensive lingerie is the key.
Mmmmmmmmm, MILF.
juliete benoche in cache looked as chubby as any resident from north Bend.
I for one totally agree with Charles - it's all in the mind - and both Italian and French women see age as no barrier to being sexy.
French Playboy said, “The more time passes, the more her inner beauty glows.” Will American Playboy ever be that enlightened? I'm judging from that stupid TV show, and have zero interest in buying any magazine, let alone that one, but all American seems to be interested in is how much silicon can fit in a woman's chest.
Is that a reflection of who is running American Playboy or of America?
Thanks Charles there is nothing more erotic than reading your marxist interpretation of desire.
How old is Catherine Deneuve? In her sixties? I still want to have sex with her, and I'm homosexual.
mmm...Catherine Deneuve. So hot.
No, no, no! What America needs now is another folk singer.
mmm MILF weed...
Actually, what America really needs is for men to stop acting like a bunch of sexist boors harping on how women need to make themselves more attractive for them.
@12, i prefer the MILF-OIL
agreed with @13
can you please not let mudede obsess about our looks and how we appeal to him sexually for like, two whole days?
jesus.
putting academic feathers on it doesn't hide the fact it's boring chickenshit.
I'll just insist on my point without my previous and tedious explanation: AMERICAN WOMEN AGE BADLY. AWFULLY. And that's because they're already old at 25
It's so Marxist to lust after national gender stereotypes, especially when they're draped in the kind of high commercial fashion that requires the existence of consumer capitalism. But then this is just 1960s style radical chic posturing. In the end, it's all about how fuckable chicks are maaaaaaaaaaaan.
Great article, and so true. I'm still in my 20's, but it's just one more reason I prefer French men over their American counterparts. I'm a lucky girl to have found a great French guy here in Seattle.
What is sexist about this? A post respectfully celebrating the eroticism of older women?
If this is sexist, I'll have more of it, please.
I'll be respectfully celebrating the eroticism of Binoche in my room ....
MUDEDE WHAT THE FUCK you are such a HACK! Quick your jerking off on Seattle, on Amanda Knox, and now the world! HOLLER AT 13 & 15. There is nothing erotic about this post. There's a reason there are different words for porn and eroticism - but the reason no one knows the difference any more is pseudo-intellectual HIGHLY PSEUDO-EROTIC DRIVEL like yours. STOP IT, step back and dig deeper! If you really want to revive the erotic on behalf of our nation or even yourself, figure out your relationship to women. Maybe even talk to some - and then LISTEN. Oh and holler at 17 too. YUMMM to y'all who know this.
You know, I have been thinking about it. I only care, Mudede, because you are interesting. If that means anything.
Guess I better move to France.
I live in France. Please believe me when I say these stereotypes (as much as the french would love for you to believe them) are not true at all.
All the tabloids here had pictures denouncing the first ladies wrinkled old body in a bikini in comparison to his new trophy wife.
So quit with your hard on for the french.
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