Modern action films fetishize the body even as they desexualize it
&gt; [Julia] was a bold-looking girl, of about twenty-seven, with thick hair, a freckled face, and swift, athletic movements. A narrow scarlet sash, emblem of the Junior Anti-Sex League, was wound several times round the waist of her overalls, just tightly enough to bring out the shapeliness of her hips. Winston had disliked her from the very first moment of seeing her.<p>&gt; Better than before, moreover, he realized why it was that he hated her. He hated her because she was <i>young and pretty and sexless</i>, because he wanted to go to bed with her and would never do so, because round her sweet supple waist, which seemed to ask you to encircle it with your arm, there was only the odious scarlet sash, aggressive symbol of chastity.<p>1984, George Orwell, 1949