re: #134 Simply Sarah

I agree in part. To me, really, I’d like people to get to a point where we don’t actually worry about women being lesser than or equal or greater than men, because we’d have moved beyond where that has any meaning and instead just see a person as a person. I mean, yes, there are differences between the average male and average female, but I don’t see where that makes a difference.

As for oversexualization of women, I think there is certainly truth to that. This is where things get a bit tricky, since I feel a woman should have the right to, if she so wishes, have highly sexual self. It just becomes a problem of trying say this is allowed without actively encouraging it and making it what is expected as the norm, which we seem to be having some trouble with.

I have no issue with healthy sexuality. Indeed, a woman has and should have the freedom to be as sexual as she pleases. It is in how we get there that poses the problem.

Magazines geared toward teens (and often read by pre teens) extolling the techniques of sexual activities as opposed to healthy emotional behavior does not make for a healthy sexuality. The same applies to adults- over indulging at the buffet isn’t healthy, irrespective of the endeavor.

Adults understand healthy sexuality cannot be separated from healthy emotionality.

If sex is a commodity men will treat is as such. Biology dictates that to a very large degree, but that need not be the overt and principal behavior.