Not vulgarity or inhuman body proportions or trendiness or potential for virality, but more nuanced things,” she says. “We’ve forgotten what we actually want to see from other people. TikTok star Serena Shahidi, aka glamdemon2004, known for her alluring manner and dulcet voice, tells me that this absence of sensuality can be chalked up to a lack of subtlety. The same holds true for fashion, where even the overtly body-conscious clothes of the past few seasons have lacked that elusive ability to entice. Or the high-octane pairing in Singin’ in the Rain, with Cyd Charisse’s green fringed dress seductively echoing her movements while she playfully blows smoke in Gene Kelly’s face. There are not too many moments that could compare to the slow-burning fire in Edith Wharton’s The Age of Innocence, when Madame Olenska touches Newland Archer’s knee with her fan: “It was the lightest touch, but it thrilled him like a caress,” Wharton writes. The moment tapped into a larger conversation about the dearth of true sensuality in popular media: You’d be hard-pressed to come up with anything from the last few decades that resounds with a true sensual nature. Those few seconds on the red carpet quenched the public’s thirst, and they suddenly knew what they’d been missing. When Oscar Isaac kissed his way up Jessica Chastain’s arm at the Venice Film Festival, he awakened a sea of starved onlookers.
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