For women especially, virginity has become the easy answer- the morality quick fix. You can be vapid, stupid, and unethical, but so long as you've never had sex, you're a "good" (i.e. "moral) girl and therefore worthy of praise.
I've thought often about why - why?! - anyone, especially other women, would try to disrupt feminist work that combats violence. What in the world could be the point of that? The only reason I've come up with, and I think it makes sense, is fear of b...
In addition to shaming sexual-assault victims, positioning abstinence as women's domain further promotes the notion that it's women's morality that's on the line when it comes to sex, men just can't help themselves, so their ethics are safe from crit...
Sex for pleasure, for fun, or even for building relationships is completely absent from our national conversation. Yet taking the joy out of sexuality is a surefire way to ensure not that young women won't have sex, but rather that they'll have it wi...
Making women the sexual gatekeepers and telling men they just can't help themselves not only drives home the point that women's sexuality is unnatural, but also sets up a disturbing dynamic in which women are expected to be responsible for men's sexu...
I'm obsessive. That's the word for me. I obsess - perhaps to the point where it's moderately dysfunctional. I tend to put a book through about 100 revisions. If anything, that's an understatement. If there's another author out there who does this sor...
Is it love, obsession, infatuation? You don't know. You think of a strange and beautiful word you read about once, Limerance, a psychological term, meaning an obsessive love, a state that's almost like a drug. Need like a wolf paces the perimeter of ...
I'm obsessed with 'Homeland.' It's not even okay.
I'm an obsessive person. I like intensity.
I'm obsessed by the idea of making my mark on history. And Arsenal is my paradise.
The Americans are very clear, and obsessed with nouns.
I've always been obsessed by beef jerky.
I know I have an eccentric, obsessive-compulsive side.
As a teenager I was obsessed with music and with writing and performing songs.
I'm kind of insane when it comes to music, a little obsessed.
Unattractive people are more obsessed with looks.
I'm obsessed with being human.
I tend to obsess over my passions.
I have a gajillion headbands - yellows, pinks, reds, blues. I'm obsessed.
I'm obsessed with making lists.
I'm kind of obsessed with food. I like to eat.
