On the presentation of women through popular culture, media, and advertising:
It is all a fake, of course; the figures in the popular art are falsely drawn; the real women in bathing suits or tights are actually pinched in and propped up to make them appear firmer and more slender … than nature allows a full-grown woman to be. … As a result we are more and more directing the desires of men to something which does not exist—making the rôle of the eye in sexuality more and more important and at the same time making its demands more and more impossible.
C. S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters (1942)
