ok so i'm just gonna post this
Oct. 8th, 2003 12:21 amI don't really agree with most of it, but go ahead and tell me what you think... from salon.com
"No intercourse, please -- we're enlightened"
Sensitive, feminized and resentful, today's young men no longer have the sexual authority to please a woman -- no matter how much oral sex they perform.
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By Ann Marlowe
Oct. 1, 2003 | It was after seeing "Thirteen" and noticing the display rack of handcuffs at Sam Goody on Sixth
Avenue that it hit me: The polymorphously perverse, gender-is-just-a-construct future that radical feminists and academics used to dream of has actually arrived. Men no longer have any authority, either in their own eyes or in women's, the genders are distinguished socially mainly by stuff they buy, and eroticism has fled from the bedroom to the store. It's sexier for most of us to go shopping than to make love, and so we do. As a friend said when I told her I'd spent much of the weekend in bed with a man, "Who has time for that? The weekend is the only chance I have to do my shopping."
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"No intercourse, please -- we're enlightened"
Sensitive, feminized and resentful, today's young men no longer have the sexual authority to please a woman -- no matter how much oral sex they perform.
- - - - - - - - - - - -
By Ann Marlowe
Oct. 1, 2003 | It was after seeing "Thirteen" and noticing the display rack of handcuffs at Sam Goody on Sixth
Avenue that it hit me: The polymorphously perverse, gender-is-just-a-construct future that radical feminists and academics used to dream of has actually arrived. Men no longer have any authority, either in their own eyes or in women's, the genders are distinguished socially mainly by stuff they buy, and eroticism has fled from the bedroom to the store. It's sexier for most of us to go shopping than to make love, and so we do. As a friend said when I told her I'd spent much of the weekend in bed with a man, "Who has time for that? The weekend is the only chance I have to do my shopping."
( Read more... )