I don\u2019t think I\u2019ve mentioned bimbofication once, but you just gave me a good setup for something I\u2019ve been thinking. The last time we went through this part of the cultural cycle, escaping from the \u201870s in the \u201880s, was bimbofication part of it?
The revalorization of the jock and the cheerleader, which lead into the whole plastic surgery \u201890s - Pamela Anderson as cultural icon, the equally bubbly Jenny McCarthy and Carmen Electra hosting Singled Out on MTV (and hell, MTV\u2019s Spring Break was pretty meatheady)?
I\u2019m pretty sure a chunk of the \u201casian fetish\u201d/asian porn boom of the \u201890s came from the way American porn had gone down this route of big bolt-ons and long candy-painted nails and pigtails and lollipops to the point of absurdity, and there was an unfulfilled demand for normal cute girls with their clothes off
Or if you want to look at the reverse slope, consider the progression between Jenna Jameson and Sasha Grey (with maybe Jenna Haze as an intermediate step?)
See NOW I’m wondering about the bubbly “surfer girl” as seen in Gidget, in beach party movies, in the Beach Boys’ music, as a step away from the ‘50s into the microskirt, groupies “Swinging Sixties”
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