Member-only story
What Casual Sex Is Really Doing to Women
What Feminists Won’t Tell You
This conversation is going to make you uncomfortable.🤷♀️
It doesn’t matter which side you’re on, it doesn’t matter what you believe about sexual freedom or tradition, you’re going to leave here with more questions than answers.
And maybe that’s exactly what we need.
We’re living in strange times.
On one hand, we have women celebrating their sexual freedom like never before. On the other, we have statistics showing that 82% of young women become depressed and anxious after casual sexual encounters.
How do we reconcile this shit?
How is something that’s supposedly liberating us simultaneously fucking us up psychologically?
Nobody wants to talk about the contradictions.
Feminists don’t want to admit that maybe the sexual revolution had unintended consequences.
Conservatives don’t want to acknowledge that going backwards isn’t a solution either. And we, the women who live this firsthand, are stuck in the middle of this ideological war, trying to figure out what we…