Posted on 03/23/2022 5:05:16 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Almost exactly a year ago, writer Katherine Dee, who blogs about internet culture and trend forecasting, predicted what she called a “coming wave of sex negativity.” Sex positivity, she suggested, had created new stigmas, including around discussing the harms of sex work and self-commodification. “People do not want to be atomized,” she wrote, adding, “Nobody wants this dystopia.”
Not everything Ms. Dee foresaw — like a shift toward earlier childbearing among the upper-middle class — has come to pass, at least so far. But she nailed an emerging movement, one that now has a manifesto in “Rethinking Sex: A Provocation” by Washington Post columnist Christine Emba, which I found bold and compelling even when I disagreed with it. Ms. Emba’s argument is that sexual liberation, as currently conceived, has made people, and especially women, miserable. It has created, ironically, new strictures and secret shames, at least in certain elite milieus, around “catching feelings,” hating casual sex and having vanilla sexual tastes.
One anecdote from the book illustrates the perversity, so to speak, of the current moment. Ms. Emba describes meeting a woman at a Washington party who tells her about the man she has been dating. In most ways, he’s great. “But he chokes me during sex?” the woman confides. She had consented, but she didn’t like it. She was so unsure about whether her feelings were reasonable that she turned to Ms. Emba, a stranger, for advice. “The taboo on questioning someone else’s sexual preference was that strong,” writes Ms. Emba. Her book is aimed, in part, at breaking that taboo.
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I needed a shower after reading this.
From Merriam Webster:
atomize verb
at·om·ize | \ ˈa-tə-ˌmīz \
atomized; atomizing
Definition of atomize
transitive verb
1: to treat as made up of many discrete units
2: to reduce to minute particles or to a fine spray
3: DIVIDE, FRAGMENT
an atomized society
also : to deprive of meaningful ties to others
atomized individuals
4: to subject to attack by nuclear weapons
Yeah. Ain’t nobody got time for that...
Sex positivity shames those, primarily women, who do not want to engage in kinky sex, those who have a lower sex drive, and those who have been cheated on. I have no idea how anyone could buy the lie that it is pro-woman or pro-anyone, really.
These people are lost.
People who deny and/or ignore God’s laws on morality, and who see themselves as intellectuals and as being wise on the subject of sexual behavior, are often, as Paul said: “Ever learning and never coming to a knowledge of the truth.” (2 Timothy 3:7)
Sex positivity seems like the sexual revolution on steroids. Once the Pill came out and rendered sex a pleasurable moment without context, women no longer had an excuse to refrain.
Now women are socially pressured to engage in kinky sex.
Qui bono? Not women. And “liberating” women more won’t help.
An article from a women who takes her own perceived depth of understanding AND vocabulary far too seriously.
She has a strong personality and too much respect for herself to fall into the hookup culture trap.
Single men can have a hard time, too. All the good ones are already taken (TM).
I was always thinking, not thinking much of myself, that married women were kinder to me either because they knew I couldn’t ask them out in good conscience, or because they wished they were single. But now I’m thinking, they’re like that, because they got married early DUE TO THEIR KINDNESS (in part)!
And for your daughter insisting on something more than meaningless trysts, good on her!
I’m so thankful for my husband.
Ms. Dee uses her mouth purtier than a 2 dollar whore.
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Read the comments. They’re all pseudo intellectual posturing by people who can’t admit they’ve been scammed.
Even more powerful in context, especially verse 6.
But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. 2 People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3 without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, 4 treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God— 5 having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with such people.
6 They are the kind who worm their way into homes and gain control over gullible women, who are loaded down with sins and are swayed by all kinds of evil desires, 7 always learning but never able to come to a knowledge of the truth.
The best way to understand “sex positivity” is as the attitude an adult pervert has towards some young child that’s being groomed.
That's my "sex positivity".
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