The Patriot Post® · Tuesday Opinion

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Opinion in Brief

Heather Mac Donald: “‘Dangerously outdated gender norms’ are not what make it difficult to say no to sexual advances; contemporary gender norms have confused these already fraught situations. Traditional mores set the default for premarital sex at ‘no,’ at least for females. This default recognized the different sexual drives of males and females and the difficulties of bargaining with the male libido. The default ‘no’ to premarital sex meant that a female did not have to negotiate the refusal with every opportuning male; it was simply assumed. She could, of course, cast aside the default assumption; that was her power and prerogative. But she did not have to provide reasons for shutting down a sexual advance. Sexual liberation reversed those default settings. The default is now ‘yes’ to premarital sex; it is a ‘no’ that has to be extricated in media res. No cultural taboos remain around premarital sex; those represented a repressive version of female sexuality, declared the liberationists. Males and females are now assumed to pursue sexual conquest with equal zeal. … Feminists cannot acknowledge the divide between men and women when it comes to sex and sensibility.”