What’s So Great about Dying for Sex?
What’s So Great about Dying for Sex? Not your grandmother's sexual morality Janice Fiamengo In her 2017 op/ed “ Let’s rethink sex ,” The Washington Post ’s Christine Emba warned men that in the MeToo era, they should stop thinking they had any right to pursue sex (not to have it, mind you, but even to pursue it). Some men, she acknowledged, would have to get used to “less sex.” She went out of her way to say that nobody, including men, would die without it. Emba focused on the opportunity offered by MeToo “to reintroduce virtues such as prudence, temperance, respect and even love.” She exhorted her readers to consider “that sex possibly has a deeper significance than just recreation and that ‘consent’—that thin and gameable boundary—might not be the only moral sensibility we need respect.” I’m sure many men as well as women, uneasy about modern hookup culture, agreed with Emba’s sentiments. But what was most notable was that her peroration was direct...