“Let’s talk about sex”

In last Thursday’s school newspaper there was this article which talks about casual sex in relation to college life. Essentially the article stated that it has become a norm for casual sex to occur now-a-days. This example coincides with a couple of Simone de Beauvoir’s points. The first of which is virginity. Having casual sex means that the care of one’s ‘purity’ or virginity is a thing of the past (at least in college). Partners, generally, now don’t care whether or not they’re with someone who has had sex in the past. The days of stoning the deflowered girl are gone (again, at least for college students in America). Another point the article covers os sexual pleasure. Since having casual, consensual sex is commonplace, it is understood that the women who are willingly participating, are enjoying it. In class we touched on the fact that in some cultures women are mutilated so that they can’t get pleasure from sex. The idea that women shouldn’t have pleasure has changed with time.