'Sex-Obsessed' Suburban Women: The Reasons Behind the Myth
Save The stereotypical image of the suburban woman is one of selflessness, order, and safety: identical houses, minivans en route to soccer practice, PTA bake sales, practical coiffures. She is as antiseptic and controlled as her pristine lawn enclosed by a white picket fence; as orderly and wholesome as the food she packs away in the kids’ lunch boxes. But, routinely, this idealized vision is challenged by narratives of women with desires that cannot be so tidily contained—take the arrival in 2011 of Fifty Shades of Grey, a runaway hit that was attributed to suburban mommies with an int...