Some Links for Today
Links of the day: Or, Some Articles About S E X That I Thought Y'all Might Find Interesting.
1) Feministe and Pandagon respond to this half-interesting half-disturbing Salon article about women in their late 20's and early 30's who are still virgins. From Feministe:
Early experience, particularly dating in the teenage years, is crucial for forming adult romantic relationships. If you’ve missed out on those (like I have), you often have trouble forming relationships (like I do). And if you’ve managed to both miss out on dating and losing your virginity as you go into adulthood, it gets to be doubly difficult [...]
2) I'll admit that I've been following JANE magazine's publicity stunt novel attempts to hook their own 29-year old virgin up in New York City. For the most part, her blog posts read like this: [Guy] was awesome, funny, cute, etc, had lots of fun, great conversation, but didn't necessarily feel a romantic spark. Hmm. Funny how that whole spark thing works.
3) Found out from Girl about this new movie, Shortbus, which looks, um, intense. Not too sure what to say about it, except that I'll be curious to see what kind of critical reception it gets.
4) The faked O: everybody's been there once, but what's a feminist doing advocating for it? To spare the fragile male ego? Riiiiiiiiiiight.