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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Grainne who wrote (32212)	3/8/1999 9:33:00 AM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

One thing I find disturbing is the enormous pressure put on young women to be sexually active, as if they were men. Young women's beauty wields an enormous amount of power, but the logical end result is sexual intercourse. The girls don't really want sexual intercourse with every man, they want the ideal man (or men, maybe, but not everyone). Men want something else. Penni's mom was right, at least the things Penni posted that her mom said were dead on. Men and women want different things. I don't want some man telling me I should want what he wants me to want, whether it's to be more sexual, or to be less sexual. My older son once wanted to know why people committed adultery. I told him that sexual desire is a powerful natural force, but that men wouldn't get in sexual trouble if they kept their pants on and their peckers in their pants. I can think of a number of good books about sex at college in the old days, maybe Sylvia Plath's "The Bell Jar"? Remember, not that long ago women did not go to college with men. The gates to the women's dormitories locked at midnight, and there were guards to protect the women. One thing the woman's movement has done is given us a public voice on these topics. If young women hear older, experienced women talking candidly about these topics, maybe it will save them some heartache.