In 2018, sex is the only thing left that people do without ear buds or a screen.
This makes sex one of the last havens of actual human-human contact. Paradoxically, sex can be revolutionary precisely because it can be a place without politics. The Church hates sex because it’s where humans can experience actual autonomy.
Trans activists have savaged Scarlett Johansson for playing a trans person in an upcoming film. This almost guarantees the film won’t get made–a tragedy for trans people. What star in their right mind will now make such a movie?
Steam-cleaning your vagina is the latest way someone’s getting rich by making women feel bad about their sexual bodies. Men are under that kind of pressure, too–and we should all resist it.
Philip Roth spent his incredibly productive career portraying our sexuality: our irrational lust, our solipsistic passions, the messy surprises. Many people resented this—not because he was wrong, but because he was right.
The idea of deriding something as “just like a woman” has gone out of fashion, and I daresay no modern woman would stand for it.
So why has “just like a man” become increasingly acceptable?
Way back in 2004 there was Superbowl XXXVIII. The halftime show featured a Janet Jackson-Justin Timberlake duet. Timberlake wore what guys wear in Denny’s, and Jackson wore a black leather bustier over a red lace undergarment.
They closed their song with Timberlake dramatically pulling off the bustier cup covering Jackson’s right breast. For exactly one-half second (I am NOT making this up), half the planet saw her nipple. How do you suppose this story will be re-told in a post-Harvey Weinstein world?