Raunch Culture and Vegas

In her conclusion to Female Chauvinist Pigs, Ariel Levy states:

"We have to ask ourselves why we are so focused on silent girly-girls in G-strings faking lust" (Levy 198).

I have to admit I have fallen into this trap before. My husband and I went to Las Vegas this summer and decided we would be all risque and go to one of the typical Vegas shows. Obviously, my husband was pretty excited for it. He even researched which one we should go to. We ended up going to a show called Fantasy at the Luxor. One of the guidebooks voted it the best show for couples...which made me wonder how much more male-centered the other shows could even be, because this one seemed to be pretty much geared toward men.

Anyways, back to my story. Even though my husband was more excited for it, I can't say I was dreading it. I figured it would be a fun Vegas thing to do. Little did I know...

We paid about $100 for our two tickets. Both of us left the show knowing it had not been worth the money. I couldn't quite put it into words that really explained how I felt about it until I read Levy's book, and specifically the sentence I quoted at the beginning of this post. I knew it wasn't as sexy as I thought it would be, but I couldn't explain why. Now I know it is because even though the "dancers" were extremely good looking, it was fake lust. It is all just so fake. Of course, I don't know why either one of us expected any different. The older I get, Vegas seems to be the city of "fake"- fake wealth, fake history (the Luxor and the Paris buildings to be exact), fake glam, etc.