Gender equality is not for women to "overtake" men or actually be men. What's happening is that women are getting more choices and more confidence to make those choices. What's happening is the decline of expectations, long and slow though it may be.
If we say that slut is a bad word, we are implicitly saying it is bad for women to want to have sex. If we say that prostitute is a bad word, we are saying that taking money for sex is an insult. Neither is automatically true.
We tiptoe around the heterosexual woman's unsightly libido, and end up with an oddly euphemized rhetoric, a defense of birth control that seems to involve no sex, desire, sperm, or men.
Since I left my husband I have been unable to do a number of things -- the most frustrating lost skill is the ability to date. After nine years in a ...
There has been precious little critical debate or dialogue about pornography in mainstream media, which is striking when you consider what a ubiquitous cultural phenomenon it is.