"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 āvirginityā. We learn that virginity is āa completely made up conceptā created solely to inflict gratuitous shame and stigma. And the only reason itās a concept at all is because āsocietyā has arbitrarily opted to centre a ānarrowā definition of sex, ie āpenis in vaginaā. We might retort that āpenis in vaginaā can claim to be the most important feature of sex because, for existential reasons, it is in fact the most important . Most of us wouldnāt be here if it wasnāt for āpenis in vagina.ā. But no matter. Saying so is against the Cyborg Sex Code: that is, the moral orthodoxy thatās replaced the vanishingly brief āanything goesā 1960s code-less sexual code. The Cyborg Sex Code now structures the modern orthodox understanding of what s...