Monday, March 31, 2008

"Girls Gone Mild: Young Women Reclaim Self-Respect and Find it's not Bad to be Good"
Deciding when to have consensual sex is a totally personal thing based upon totally personal factors, and I don't think it's anyone's place to judge someone else's sexual activity or lack thereof. Which is why I would not judge someone who was abstaining until marriage. But it's also why this book title pisses me off so much, not because I oppose abstinence or even movements to encourage abstinence among young people, but because it colors the issue of having sex as simply a matter of "good" versus "bad" and assumes that women sacrifice their "self-respect" when they have pre-marital sex. Isn't that completely playing into this whole ingrained philosophy that female sexuality is bad and wrong and sex is primarily the pleasure of the man and the duty of the woman?

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