Sexual liberation, free speech, and Alzheimer's

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I took this over the weekend while on a trip. No direct relation to today’s content — just an image I wanted to share with you.

What Sexual Liberation Really Looks Like

By

Louise Perry

“So, the evidence doesn’t suggest that today’s young women are reveling in sexual liberation. Instead, it suggests that a lot of women are having unpleasant, crappy sex out of a sense of obligation. And to add insult to injury, this doesn’t actually increase women’s value in the eyes of men.”

Engaging in no-strings-attached sex has long been presented as the more intellectual choice, and certainly the right choice if you were a forward-thinking woman. What those pushing this type of relationship have failed to notice is that most women don’t value this type of relationship (if you can even call it that), while most men do. The result is a culture where women cannot win. They are either labeled backwards for wanting a relationship, or they’re having empty sex they don’t enjoy — which, despite our promotion of hookup cu…