Snyder Than You

agirlcalledchris:

“If you spend any amount of time doing media analysis, it’s clear that the most frenzied moral panic surrounding young women’s sexuality comes from the mainstream media, which loves to report about how promiscuous girls are, whether they’re acting up on spring break, getting caught topless on camera, or catching all kinds of STIs. Unsurprisingly, these types of articles and stories generally fail to mention that women are attending college at the highest rates in history, and that we’re the majority of undergraduate and master’s students. Well-educated and socially engaged women just don’t make for good headlines, it seems.”

— Jessica Valenti—The Purity Myth: How America’s Obsession With Virginity is Hurting Young Women (via hitmeagaintubesock)

I find it interesting that America is obsessed with virginity. Most of what I see online and from television and movies is the opposite. I also see nothing wrong with being a virgin and waiting for sex. There is a very real emotional connection that sexual intimacy creates.

Personally, though, perhaps the lens should be focused on the male gender, since it is them that initiates — or worse, forces — sex a great majority of the time. Instead men and boys are still, to this day, praised for their sexual exploits, never mind the STIs and the emotional damage and the risk of unwanted pregnancy.