and I have heard over the years to convince us
to have sex. I’ve organized them into three categories:
“Pressuring You Into Sex Through Guilt,”
"Blatant Lies” and “Not Actually an Argument”
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| From Jo Swift |
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I've listed below the top arguments that my friends and I have heard over the years to convince us to have sex. I’ve organized them into three categories: “Pressuring You Into Sex Through Guilt,” “Blatant Lies” and “Not Actually an Argument.”Pressuring You Into Sex Through Guilt:
1) “Come on, I kicked my roommate out for this.”
2) “I’ve had an erection for a really long time and it’s really uncomfortable.”
3) “I just want to make love to you. With a condom and everything.”
4) “I’ll take you out to breakfast tomorrow morning.”
5) “No? That’s cool. I totally respect your decision. Are you really sure though?”
Blatant Lies:
6) “I don’t usually do this,” which means: “I very often do this.”
7) “You’re a freshman, you have key-card access to so many classrooms on Old Campus. That’ll be a great story to tell your friends later.”
8) “Tomorrow you’ll look back and be really glad we did this.”
9) “I’m Barack Obama.”
Not Actually An Argument:
10) “Why not?”
11) “I just want to be close to you.”
12) “It won’t take that long.” This is an anti-argument.
13) “Fourteen’s not too young.”
14) “You’re so beautiful.” Not an argument, unless people are super turned on by their own face.
15) “You’re not that drunk.”
16) “Oh come on, what’s the worst that could happen?” DISEASE. BABIES. SHAME.
Maybe I’m old-fashioned, but I feel when two people want to have sex. With each other. Consensually. It’s VERY APPARENT. No presumption or gumption required.
But this often isn’t the case in our dating culture. The norm is that guys are pursuers; they are told to be aggressive and bang tons of chicks.
Girls are the pursued; they should play hard-to-get and have sex with maybe five guys over their entire life in long-term committed relationships. This difference is going to have some awkward results.
Girls end up as the gatekeepers, while guys have to knock or push or belligerently bang on the gate.
This makes the line between acceptable pursuit and pressure dangerously blurry. You end up with girls consenting because they felt too uncomfortable to say no.
Yes, penis pain is a pretty big problem. But a guy complaining about his penis pain in order to woo a girl into submission? That’s a huge problem.
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