Excerpts from The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women by Naomi Wolf

"A writing professor says that every year, when he assigns an essay on media imagery, young women write about their lovers' having expressed disappointment that the women don't look like those in pornography."

"During the past five years, consumer spending doubled, pornography became the main media category, ahead of legitimate films and records combined, and thirty-three thousand American women told researchers that they would rather lose ten to fifteen pounds than achieve any other goal."