I am surprised and pleased that this post has generated so many interesting comments from so many diverse perspectives. We have comments from (among others) sex-positive feminists (including moi), a Christian conservative, a lesbian feminist, a straight man, and a 33-year old male virgin touching on issues of the meaning of sex outside of marriage, when a person's sexual fantasies may or may not be considered "feminist," whether the concept of virginity is hetero-normative, how to define virginity, and whether valuing virginity too much contributes to our culture's unfortunate exaltation of sex above other aspects of life. I hadn't intended to write that much about sex and sexual identity on this blog, but all of these comments are so good, I have a swirl of potential posts running through my head.
"I hadn't intended to write that much about sex and sexual identity on this blog..."
Oh yeah, right. Save your breath for the blog awards banquet. You did it for the ratings and you know it. What's next? Posts with gratuitous violence? Huh?
Posted by: Richard Ames | December 21, 2005 at 11:20 PM
Hey, sex sells, what can I say? I am going to try to incorporate it into my practice group marketing at my firm somehow too.
By the way, I understand that a young woman over at Scheherazade's party (http://civpro.blogs.com/civil_procedure/2005/12/party_time.html#comments) thinks that you're "yummy."
Posted by: The Happy Feminist | December 22, 2005 at 07:23 AM