Sex is Back
If the 60’s and 70’s were about free love and multiple sexual partners the 80’s and early part of the 90’s were about safe sex, abstinence, and monogamous relationships. Without even realizing it, sexual freedom was hijacked by the Christian Right, who used the rampant spread of AIDS to promote a cultural backlash against promiscuity. Sex for fun wasn’t just sinful it was deadly.
And then came Sex and the City. Now whether you like Sarah Jessica Parker or not, and for me that would be a not, single guys everywhere have to at least appreciate how HBO’s hit series Sex and the City changed the dating world.
Sex and the City made it okay for women to be sluts.
While it was only a decade ago when the series first aired it was groundbreaking in the way it openly addressed the sexual trials and tribulations of four women living in Manhattan. And in the process the series changed the way in which everyday women viewed promiscuity.
Promiscuity was no longer a taboo sexual behavior. It was about something greater. It was about a woman’s journey to find herself through a series of sexual relationships and escapades. A woman who slept around wasn’t a slut; she was simply trying to find herself.
So, as the movie version of Sex and the City hits theaters today, I hope that it encourages and educates a whole new generation of women to embark on their own sexual journey to find what every woman needs, their identity.
