WMST 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Jessica Valenti, Hanne Blank, Jessica Simpson
6 Mar 2020
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Once you have sex it is assumed you do it immediately with every partner after that. Mother said that if she had sex no one would marry here. Mix of both a porn culture and one that pushes abstinence. Hanne blank wrote her book virgin: the untouched history. Blank founded a website online about sex education. No definition that is medical only subjective. Blank tried to research it at harvard, not a single medical definition but doctors talk about it all the time! One perspective is that is pleasure based (accounts for more than just heterosexual relationships) Virginity lost: an intimate portrait o f first sexual experiences, The word causes more harm than good. Relationship between sexual purity and women - not typically connected to men. A long-standing historical interest in virginity is about establishing paternity (if a man marries a virgin, he can be reasonably sure the child she bears is his)
