Sex and the Single Girls

So today’s would-be Lysistratas need to develop ways of stigmatizing young women who too readily say yes to sex, just as unions do to scabs and strikebreakers. What a feminist triumph that would be .”  says James Taranto, discussing hook-up culture and the arguments about it.

Call this an update to earlier discussions or a segue from Carl’s latest on  Damsel’s in Distress .

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