Playboy because she resents feeling ugly in sex--or, if "beautiful," her body defined and diminished by pornography. It inhibits in her something she needs to live, and gives her the ultimate anaphrodisiac: the self-critical sexual gaze. Alice Walker's essay "Coming Apart" investigates the damage done: Comparing herself to her lover's pornography, her heroine "foolishly" decides that she is not beautiful.
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The men in the room suddenly realized that they did not want to know her better. She was beautiful, ... 
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She has a wisdom beyond her years. But what I love about her most is that she is a girl. Her playful... 
She has the most bizarre and beautiful soul I had ever seen. Her eyes shined always like a�... 
she is no longer
She is not truly beautiful but something about her draws the eye. 
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You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her. 
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