Word: femsexã
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Jackson says that “it is important to show a different view of sex and sexuality,” especially with campus groups like FemSex??an all-female, not for credit seminar which explores sexuality—dominating the discourse...
...this isn’t the tagline for a re-vamped Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants DVD release, nor a precocious teen’s slumber party invite; it’s the e-mail pitch for Female Sexuality (or “FemSex??), a student-facilitated not-for-credit seminar given at the Harvard College women’s center four nights a week. The class aims to redress what it sees as the shortcomings of feminist liberation by enabling students to throw off the perceived shackles repressing female sexuality...
...first few pages of its coursepack—a full $15 binder—shock readers with repetitive mention of the word “cunt,” sketches of vaginas, and of course, a Sappho poem. While women are making headway in society, the workplace and politics, FemSex??s claims that, on the cultural liberation front, women and their sexuality have been left behind. But while the class provides a useful outlet for some repressed souls on campus, the irony of its mission eclipses its value...
Even worse, in its attempt to force its members into an archetype of what liberation should be, FemSex??s approach overpowers the individual instead of empowering her. Empowerment is about making your own choices, not about adhering to the FemSex agenda. I wonder how a class member who made the liberated choice to abstain from sex would be received in this group...
...information session earlier this month, one FemSex alum recounted her favorite assignment from last term: taking a speculum and a light and getting intimate with her own private parts. Nothing could serve as a better example of FemSex??s misguided philosophy: while its participants are searching their own insides, they’re missing what’s going on outside. We live in a world with those other people—you remember them, the men—and until we can stop judging our liberation as women (sexual or otherwise) by how separate we are from...
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