"You don't lose your virginity, you gain empowerment"
"You don't lose your virginity, you gain empowerment" Planned Parenthood, Pornhub, and the toxic myth of the self-creating sexual subject MARY HARRINGTON In a set styled to resemble a classroom, the presenter delivers a 3-minute lecture on “virginity”. We learn that virginity is “a completely made up concept” created solely to inflict gratuitous shame and stigma. And the only reason it’s a concept at all is because “society” has arbitrarily opted to centre a “narrow” definition of sex, ie “penis in vagina”. We might retort that “penis in vagina” can claim to be the most important feature of sex because, for existential reasons, it is in fact the most important . Most of us wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for “penis in vagina.”. But no matter. Saying so is against the Cyborg Sex Code: that is, the moral orthodoxy that’s replaced the vanishingly brief “anything goes” 1960s code-less sexual code. The Cyborg Sex Code now structures the modern orthodox understanding of what s...
