Keep your sexual life with your husband pure. Uphold virginity as the most precious of virtues. Whether or not you agree with that, you should be concerned with how she extends that argument. She starts off, however, exactly where we would expect her to: the only permissible form of sex is between heterosexual married partners. On the surface, Helen is about to say a lot of things that sound like we would agree with her. You’ll see why once we get in to it, but I want to start out with this observation: very often, I’ve found that many people easily slip in the ideas that someone like me find necessary: agency, consent, autonomy. ![]() I’ve been procrastinating about writing this chapter because my feelings about it are. ![]() ![]() Good riddance, I’m sure most of you are thinking– well, you’re not alone. This is the last week of my extended review of Helen Andelin’s Fascinating Womanhood.
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