Through looking at my blog stats this evening, it has become blatantly obvious to me that I must write more about sex. The highest views I’ve ever posted for a story in one day come from my Let’s Talk About Sex . . . Or Not post. Does that say more about me, or you, dear reader?
So, let’s get on with it. I’ve got a little item I wanted to share with you that I found through the blog Dangerous Intersection. It is an article from the Telegraph discussing the book Prude: How the Sex-Obsessed Culture Damages Girls by Carol Platt Liebau. According to the article, “[Lieubau] claims that teenage girls are growing up in a culture in which being called “a slut” is preferable to being labelled “a prude”.
Remember that word “prude.” I’ll be coming back to it in a later post.
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January 31, 2008 at 4:52 pm
Sex, Sex, Sex!!! « The Woo Woo Teacup Journal
[...] thinking Okay, people, you are making me laugh. I checked my blog stats again today and now my “More Sex” post has gotten even more hits than my “Let’s Talk About Sex . . . Or Not” [...]
February 2, 2008 at 9:24 am
Misconceptions Meme « The Woo Woo Teacup Journal
[...] All of us know stories like this – unfair situations where a misconception was involved. In fact, I’d be willing to bet that most of us have been the victim of a misconception ourselves. Take me. I was a quiet person in middle and high school. I didn’t go out to parties. I didn’t smoke or drink or do drugs. I didn’t date, mostly because I wasn’t allowed to until I was 16, but even after that, the whole scene just felt awkward to me. To make matters worse, I liked school and did well at it. For all of these crimes, I was labeled a prude. (Didn’t I tell you I’d come back to this word?) [...]