Exactly. I wish I could star this a thousand times.

If anyone needs an object lesson in why kids and young teenagers can’t give informed consent, this is it.

Weird, right? It’s like there’s something about him and his circumstances that makes the justice system go easier on him than other convicted criminals.

has violated a condition of his release by failing to comply with his curfew, traveling outside the parameters of his curfew at least eight times

Yeah, that’s pretty much the entire fucking point.

Conservative women are searching for their place in the patriarchy instead of fighting it. There are abiding rules, of course. One of those rules is “keep quiet if you’re assaulted”. People who speak up when they’re hurt by a man have to turn in their imaginary maleness points, and get cast out of the system again.…

I’m glad she has opened her eyes and seen the people she worked for as they really are, but it’s crappy that it had to happen this way. The fact is, women and/or any kind of minority is expendable to the conservative movement, because the movement isn’t for them. Their help is useful until they go against a white…

I’m not even particularly religious and I was a virgin until I was 27...

Seconded.

There are lots of reasons people don’t have sex, guys. If you really want to promote consent, how about we normalize people who choose not to have sex for their own reasons? Because the social pressure and judgment from the “pro-sex/everybody is doing it duh!” group gets pretty ugly.

The main issue that keeps ME single is guys who bring up sex in the first ten minutes. Stakes are too high when every move he makes is about sex, as soon as possible. Lots of different reasons for dating to have too much baggage.

I’m 32, a virgin, and all those other things except Godly (atheist).

I’m Somali, we don’t need botox. I just have a pancake for a booty. I need more of a onion booty.

Well, I was 26 when I lost my virginity and I’m pretty awesome. I just don’t judge myself by whether or not I’ve had a dick inside me. Believe me, if you don’t have that big of a sex drive in high school / college, you can make it to the other side without having sex. And then by the time you are ready, it’s…

Yes. I didn’t have sex until I was 30. I wasn’t religious or conservative, just demisexual, and I take a long time to become attracted to someone. There’s nothing wrong with being this way, but our culture tends to reinforce the idea that there must be “something wrong” for not having sexual relationships by a certain…

On the flip side– It’s also really hard when you’re more physically reserved, like I am, and you really don’t want to deal with dudes who expect you to put out by the third date.

I know a few people for whom this is true who didn’t grow up in conservative households. Their abstinence is religiously motivated, but they actually became more observant than their moderate-to-liberal parents in college ... atypical shift, but it happens.

slut shaming is bad, unless it’s kim kardashian because el oh el reasons.

Why would it be “highly unlikely”? Are women required to lose their virginity by a certain age to prove their worth or something?

It really is not as unlikely as you might think.