Discuss “Feminine sexuality can function as cultural resistance”

Sex.

It propagates our species; it satisfies our lust. It is necessity and emotion, dominance and submission. It is fully-clothed sensuality and raw nakedness. It embodies many extremes, the most important of which being this: Sex is a concept as ancient as the very essence of biological life, yet as immediate as our foremost thoughts and impulses. When it comes to sex, the primordial makes love to the modern. So which should we open wider, our minds or our legs?

In Western societies, there is a double standard which says that only men can initiate sex. In other words, sex — fooling around, hooking up, taking the 46G to Pleasant Hills — takes place only on his watch. Once he wants to go, the woman’s timetable is secondary. Sex is an...