11. Let’s Talk About Sex - Salt-N-Pepa 1991

 Let's talk about sex, baby

Let's talk about you and me
Let's talk about all the good things
And the bad things that may be

 

Sex is one of the most perplexing issues that a woman will encounter.

As young adults our fathers are devastated at the thought of us having sex, while patting their sons on the back if they get some. We’re expected to maintain a virginal appearance to society while providing functional services for reproduction and male relief – though often the same males that are devastated at the thought of their daughters having sex dream of wild, unabandoned sex romps themselves.

Couple this with Liam Neeson’s portrayal of Alfred Kinsey in the movie Kinsey, in which his character gains critical acclaim for his 1948 research paper Sexual Behaviour in the Human Male, but is shunned for his 1953 follow up Sexual Behaviour in the Human Female because - I paraphrase here - ‘People don’t want to hear about their wives and sisters having an orgasm.’

This is one of the biggest conundrums a woman will face in society. Then society goes and throws in the further complicating factors of contraception and sexually transmitted diseases (STDs).

Despite great inroads, contraception is still largely the responsibility of ‘Oh my God! A woman!’. Yes, our sisters should be equipped with adequate information and resources to take care of contraception for themselves because, ultimately, if a baby is conceived, females face the greater responsibility – to keep the pregnancy or not, and social, career and financial impacts of raising a child. We also have greater exposure to and complications from STDs than males – again creating greater obligation to take preventative measures.

However, then we have the situation of the dedicated heterosexual couple. Despite the existence of a long-term monogamous relationship, women still typically take on their fair share of responsibility on this front. Sorry, but after my kid brother was born it was my mum going through the highly invasive and typically irreversible procedure of having her tubes tied, not my dad having a relatively simple and reversible vasectomy.

 

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