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Rebecca Wolff's avatar

You have outdone yourself with this giant, thick, throbbing, spurting riposte!

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Sara's avatar

It’s amazing to me how people continue to insist that the reason young people are having less sex is because we live in a “sexually repressed” society, when a plain, obvious truth is staring us all right in the face: women are no longer forced to enter into relationships with men, as we have been in previous generations. And given that the majority of men are virulent misogynists (or at the very least, do not respect women and objectify us), do not do their fair share of domestic labor, cannot emotionally connect, etc, it’s no shock that women are choosing to forego relationships with men. Even disregarding the idea of a a relationship, casual sex has very little benefit for the average heterosexual, cisgender woman - most men cannot make us come, and in addition to that, we have to worry about the potential for violence to occur or for men to force us into sexual acts we have not consented to (choking, slapping, “accidentally” slipping into our anus). No, it couldn’t be any of the very real, very apparent issues that women constantly face when engaging with men. It’s just sexual repression. I think obviously these companies must realize what they are spewing is absolute bullshit, but sexualization is beneficial to late stage capitalism, so they have no incentive to point out the real issues that exist and are contributing to a decline in sex.

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