It appears ladies and gentlemen that there is a new generation of female voices out there - ones that are demanding to be heard - Love, CAKE.

From Sex Drive Daily:

"Tell me again how it's feminist to NOT take delight in other female bodies? And why is it wrong for women -- and this is a party for straight women, too, so presumably they're into men -- why is it wrong for women to express themselves in ways that turn men on? Isn't that part of the point? Who wants to take a break, glowing and panting and thirsty, and find that not one man even noticed you?" [more] - Sex Drive Daily

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From SFist - We Ogle The Weekly's Rack With Cake

"We were excited last week to see a big sexy pair of boobies on the cover of the SF Weekly -- and we were tingly all over to see that they were inviting us in to read about the San Francisco debut of New York's flagship grrrl-powered sexy party, Cake. But then we got really confused, as all the words like "objectify" and "male gaze" made us dizzy -- until we decided to make a drinking game out of it, of course.

What really made us confused is that we didn't learn anything about the party (was it fun?), but instead got a seven-page lecture on how porn is bad for women and how the women who go to these parties really can't be having fun because they don't know what life is like for real sex workers. Huh? We know a few local, fun-lovin' sex workers who had a blast at the party -- we guess the problem is that they mask their pain from the objectification of the male gaze with all that fun, so it's hard to tell.

Anyway, we thought we'd ask Emily Kramer from Cake (and co-author of the hands-on female sex empowerment book A Piece of CAKE: Recipes for Female Sexual Pleasure, and the Cake blog) what we should do about Weekly writer Eliza Strickland's issues, and what the Cake party was really like.

SFist: Do you want me to spank Eliza Strickland with a copy of A Piece of CAKE: Recipes for Female Sexual Pleasure? I'll *bring* it! [more] - SFist - We Ogle The Weekly's Rack With Cake

Update [2006-4-12 16:14:30 by CAKE]: At long last some real live feminists stand up to the bullshit that has been going around lately...

Have you heard the latest troublsome accusations that our generation of women are “co-opting ourselves” coming from other women who call themselves feminists? Yes dear reader the past few months it has felt a little like 1982 if you were to believe the likes of Ariel Levy and Pamela Paul. Thank goodness for those among us who are liberated enough to trust women’s sexual choices and to respect woman and woman alike. This conservative backlash must be stopped. Long live feminism.

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You hear it again and again – “image is everything”. The promise of a “new sexy you” is the basis of the entire beauty and fashion industry. We are continually encouraged to “find our perfect palette,” complete the “8-week body makeover,” and change our haircut and color to “transform our life.” From Extreme Makeover to Nip/Tuck, women are plucked, buffed, preened and altered in what is allegedly a desperate attempt to rescue us from our “misery”. But what do we have to be miserable about?

The most essential, and most often missed element to the makeover equation is your sexuality. The elaborate, time consuming, and often-painful makeover experience is hardly conducive to one’s sexual pleasure. In the end, what’s most important is how you feel about your body, not the other way around.

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The CAKE philosophy on female sexuality

CAKE produces entertainment, content, information and education for women by women. We do not do this for men. On the contrary, we represent thousands of women who garner very powerful, pleasurable experiences by expressing our sexuality and moreover have a distinct need to do so to further our sexual evolutions.

We have a progressive philosophy - one that is not a derivitive or perversion of male sexuality, but defined and evolved from women's needs and desires. While this includes what goes on behind closed doors, within relationships and our personal feelings about our bodies, fantasies and orgasm, some of those desires also need a public forum to be played out including exhibitionism, voyeurism, performance, visual imagery and experimentation.

We reject the old conservative argument that the choices women make stem from some sort of "false-consciousness." We reject the notion that in order to conserve women's chastity, female sexuality needs to only happen in private and women need to be protected, and hidden away from the so-called "evil male gaze." We reject the assertion that the public forum is fraught with negative consumerism and an inherently anti woman sentiment. We think there is quite a lot more going on with the program. In fact we know so.