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No wonder, then, that Levy was so startled to see the hedonism happening on Florida's beaches that she neglected to look to at the big picture.

It's true that some women on spring break will flash the entire Western world at the drop of a hat — as in the case of "Girls Gone Wild, which gives its amateur stars hats or T-shirts after they've bared all. But it's also true that they're often ridiculed by peers who keep their tops down and their bikini bottoms up.

California native Stephanie Kwai has gone to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, and the Bahamas for spring break.

"If your motive is to find girls who'll flash everybody, you can find them," she said.

At the same time, she explains, these women do not represent all coeds.

"I don't believe that everybody is going to go out there and flash people and have sex with the next person they see," she said. "A huge majority of people just go to have fun."

As for wet T-shirt contests and other woman versus woman spectacles, Kwai's not impressed.

"It's kind of amusing, but it's also kind of gross," she said.

Cultural Calamity or Variety?

Levy suggests no alternative to the reign of raunch culture. She leaves readers with the impression that if women don't wake up, put on some real panties and cover up their cleavage, the advances of the feminist movement will go to pieces.

Is the situation really so dire?