Sluts in the City

Sluts in the City
by Jennifer King, Managing Editor

March 18, 2004

"The Heretical Housewife"

Managing Editor Jennifer King Jennifer looks back on the run of HBO's "Sex in the City" and comes to the conclusion that its departure could have happened none too soon. WARNING: Contains mature themes. May offend some and is not suitable for all readers.

I did not have to view even one episode of HBO’s vaunted series, “Sex in the City” in order to understand what the concept was about. “Sex in the City” revolved around somewhat dimwitted career women let loose in the big city - free to indulge their baser animal instincts with a series of interchangeable men.

The scripts read as though they were written by immature testosterone laden sixteen-year-olds . The crass and juvenile titles serve as an example:

"Bay of Married Pigs"
"Old Dogs, New Dicks"
"The F***ing Buddy"
"Politically Erect"
"Belles of the Balls"
"Just Say Yes"
"Great Sexpectations", just to name a few.

And a special recap of Season One, Episode Four where “Charlotte’s current boyfriend wants to have anal sex with her, and she doesn’t know what to do. After conferring with her friends she decides against it because she doesn’t want to be known as the 'up the butt' girl."

It is truly amazing that so called adults would bother wasting their time watching this puerile crap, but then again, even Maureen Dowd has fans.

“Sex in the City” provides more proof if any is needed - that feminism is truly dead. Today’s enlightened career women - as portrayed by HBO - dress like whores and act like sluts. They apparently see nothing moral abhorrent about affairs with married men - “Bay of Married Pigs” - or endlessly meaningless strings of one night stands.

Feminism has “come a long way, baby” indeed. Equal pay for equal work and the right of women to pursue a career has devolved rapidly. In the 1970’s, women’s magazines crowed about the coming obsolescence of men. By the turn of the century, women’s magazines were breathlessly explaining how to perform gratifying sex acts on them. One doesn’t have to read too far to find articles explaining how 12 and 13 year old middle school girls, desperate for the attention of boys, are performing fellatio on them - sometimes in the company of their friends. Where will such a girl be, when she is 21?

Perhaps she’ll be on a college campus, where she can join in the burgeoning campus “sex-positive” movement. As chronicled by Jean Pearce in The Washington Times, the “sex positive” movement “promotes deviant sex as normal and healthy”. Pearce details how “sex festivals”, “on-campus sex workshops” and women’s studies departments have joined to “promote promiscuity and glorify prostitution and pornography under the guise of sex education.”

This feminist led movement seeks to embrace “all bacchanalia as positive, no matter how promiscuous or personally degrading”. “Prostitutes, porn stars, sex shop owners, transvestites and lesbian cross dressers called drag queens” are paid to come onto campus in order to give lectures and host workshops. Pearce describes how porn star and self-described former prostitute Annie Sprinkle hosts workshops for students which include having sex on stage. San Francisco sex shop owner, sex worker and sex party hostess Carol Queen brings her sex toys on campus, where they are used to teach students important academic subjects like anal sex, S&M and bondage. Meet the new feminism - prostitution as empowerment.

In previous days, feminine chastity, modesty and reticence were applauded. In the real world they still are. Few female executives would get by wearing slutty clothing and coming onto their male co-workers. They would be viewed as an unprofessional liability. Few women who indulged in a daily diet of rotating men would feel good - much less empowered - by it. Instead of glamorous dates and romance, they end up with unwanted pregnancies, scars from abortions and a variety of STDs. Women used to be wooed by men, now they are expected to perform for them and perform like a porn star to boot.

One clueless man, writing in the New York Times, admits that he has been letting his daughter watch “Sex in the City” since she was nine. Wonderful. Instead of Pooh Bear and Disney Princesses, his little third/fourth grader has been treated to a constant diet of immoral women having coarse sex with anonymous men. And she’s growing up thinking that this is how mature, sophisticated women act.

Given this diet of depravity, she’ll be a natural for the “sex positive” movement once she gets to college. ***

Photo of Jennifer King courtesy of staff files