Actually there is such a thing as virginity. Let’s call it sexual virtue or, if you will, sexual responsibility. As the unhappy fallout from the Sexual Revolution of the Sixties has shown we could do with more such virginity.
Fourth-wave feminism has a curious blind spot: It excoriates men for taking advantage of a situation created by the Sexual Revolution. By now it should be clear to the most fanatical feminist ideologue that so-called sexual liberation mainly liberated men. A backlash was, of course, inevitable and it came in the form of #MeToo—by which a legitimate grievance was wildly exaggerated and deployed against men as a whole. But what did men as a whole really do besides take their cue from those who preached the rightness, indeed the wholesomeness, of no-strings-attached recreational sex? Is it their fault that women have found it to be a bad deal?
So you should rethink, Ms. Valenti, your cavalier dismissal of virginity. Women are obviously unhappy with the sexual status quo. Perhaps they need to take a more active hand in reorienting it. Whining and crying about “toxic masculinity” & etc. is just that: whining and crying.
