Me, an ex-fundie? You are admitted a Christian *now*… I have never once, not once, ever in my life, professed a faith in any God. I was forced to go to church when I was a kid.

Why would autonomy be a “mystification” and not just another product of a “set of social relations” like many other things in this picture are? If women are not afforded the same privileges to enjoy sex and consent to sex as men are, this is because female autonomy (agency, subjectivity, whatever you want to call it) is not being constructed in our social relations. The way to fix this problem is not to further restrict female sexual expression, but to broaden it to include everything it already includes for men under the law, and in our daily lives.

The purity myth runs deep, though, and many, many people do not want to believe that women can do “dirty” sexual things. Christian guilt is powerful in its own right.

I don’t endorse it at all, I just refuse to pretend that women have no agency in the matter whatsoever, and I refuse to pretend that men alone, sexist pigs in particular, determine “social reality” and what the sum of “social relations” amounts to.

You mean like my comments box?

Bravo. Have fun telling women they can’t consent to sex. I’m sure that’ll get you far in your radical feminist militant mission,

No, it doesn’t. People who can’t make informed consent (like children or elderly bedridden patients) under this “ideology” are afforded all the rights they deserve to have, namely, they are protected from being coerced into sexual action by the law.

What do you suggest as an alternative to this? A society in which women are considered inferior to men, mentally and emotionally, and are therefore barred from being able to make informed consent- a society in which healthy sexually active women are actually just “invalids” and victims? One in which people are allowed free reign to molest or rape children the disabled, just because strippers exist and you don’t like that?

One thing that’s oddly lacking in your picture is the fact that women are often on the giving end of sexual abuse and rape, not always on the receiving end.

The idea that men are the sole perpetraters of rape and sexual abuse is simply not factual. Many male rapists and abusers, in fact, come by misogyny rather “naturally” after they are sexually abused by their own mothers and female caregivers. Many psychologists believe there are nearly equal numbers of male and female child molesters–it’s simply women are better at manipulating their victims, not as likely to come under suspicion, and better and not getting caught. Also, they benefit from the fact that most people think males (even male children) are incapable of having sex forced upon them by women. Think again.

No it doesn’t. What it points out is that johns believe in the illusion that’s being offered by the performance, while most prostitutes knowingly con johns into believing that they want them, really truly, want them. (Who is the clueless one here?)

Men pay for this illusion because they have no real sexual power. Men with real sexual power don’t have to pay for this illusion, because it is a reality for them. They want a girl, and they’re attractive and socially graceful enough to actually sometimes get her. Fantasy becomes reality.

For johns, fantasy never becomes reality, except in their little heads.

There’s nothing scarier than acknowledging that females have sexual power, at least for some people, apparently.