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To add to this, despite the obvious criticisms, the staggering amount of pornography on the net has taken the mystery out of many kinds of once-unspeakable sexual practices. If it is their inclination, anyone who can operate a computer can now consume a vast range of erotica and pornography. A whole new carnal world, that was once the preserve of men, is now open to women. Women can now quickly find out what their options are.

Along with this new sexuality, there has emerged a new body ideal for women. Sometime ago the weak and waif-like image of beauty, for which Kate Moss had become the figurehead, gave way to the "gym-body". The muscular and capable female body has stalked, and sometimes flown, across the screen in films such as Charlie's Angels, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Lara Croft: Tomb Raider.

An established television diet of Xena Warrior Princess and Buffy the Vampire Slayer has meant that viewers of the small screen are even more accustomed to the image of the fierce, fighting feminine body.

If these new female characters are strong, self-initiating and challenging the power of men to define the sexual playing field, one would think that they must necessarily be the result of many years of feminist struggle. Well, they may be, but they are certainly not acknowledging their feminist parentage.