Was the Sexual Revolution Supposed to Liberate Me?

The unintended consequences of liberated sex also oppress women

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The birth control pill gave women freedom, but it also fueled men’s expectations for casual sex.

What began as a quest for liberation led to the unexpected twist of our bodies becoming objects of kink and mass consumption.

I’ve always been told that the battle for female sexual freedom was arduous.

Thanks to the feminists of the 1960s, I’m now considered a sexually liberated woman, free from the constraints of biblical teachings advocating for monogamy and the sanctity of virginity.

Oh, thank the great Goddess Gaia for these feminist knights! Without them, my reality might have been a wild mix of childbearing, God-fearing, and endless suffering as a housewife — a prequel show of “Desperate Housewives” but stuck in the patriarchy season.

However, despite these strides, I find myself grappling with a new type of oppression. In an unexpected twist, it appears that the very pioneers of the sexual revolution in the 1960s have inadvertently become repressive figures for the current generation of women.

For centuries, a woman’s maidenhood was prized over any intellectual prowess or other characteristics…