New bucks.

• Author: Sloan, Dave
• Position: Letters

While I'm tentatively partial to Stephanie Mencimer's discarded "pat male-fantasy" theory ("Violent Femmes," September 2001), I flat-out disagree with her contention that "studs on steroids" are passe. We need only turn to a slightly different medium and observe the gape-mouthed 18-35 demographic permanently tuned into "Smack-down," "Raw is War," "Monday Nitro," and the rest of the professional wrestling genre on network and cable television seven nights a week. These muscle-rests feature oversized brutes accompanied by their busty, buff, and scantily-clad...