Jessica Grose at Slate.com pens an interesting piece on the shame cycle women feel after pursuing a life of casual sex. Feminist authors Julie Klausner and Hephzibah Anderson are among her several examples.
“When you cry about things not working out,” Grose quotes Klausner in a new collection of essays, “you’re crying not only because a guy you slept with now doesn’t seem to care you’re alive, but also because you’re ashamed of yourself for crying.”
Grose also quotes Anderson’s confession (in a book to be released this summer) at having such deep regrets about casual sex that she gave up “penetrative sex” for a year: