Letters to the Editor
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Perhaps the audience for chick lit "true confessions" is now men
Even in the old days, chick lit appealed to two audiences: liberated women and horny boys borrowing mom's copy of Fear of Flying.
And then at some point, I think it during Clinton One, mom tossed Jong and started teaching her son what grandma had taught her: that girls don't want it as much he does. Mom had figured out that the sexual revolution was a bad deal for women. That seems to be the underlying theme in so much policy and middlebrow intellectual discourse these days. Abstinence training at school, born again virginism, etc etc. conservative stuff though now with a feminist overlay. The madonna/whore (Hillary/Monica) dichotomy returned, though often with women manning the taboo switch. The "she wants it" storyline was again relegated to porn, particularly the new reality-tv types.
These days, intellectualized women are ambivalent about their sisters admitting they want sex, particularly of the zipless variety. But their overeducated brothers would probably love to pick up Crosley's essays at the store and search for any good stuff. Not that they'd be caught dead buying it.