Male Asexuality and Its Challenge to Masculinity

[MadrasT]

1. Game, set, match.

Sex-positive feminists who pursue the idea of women having a lot of sex consistently as the expression of their empowerment, freedom, and rebellion against misogynistic control of female sexuality, without giving due respect to voluntary sexual inactivity, fail to realize that not only are they creating a new, unhealthy paradigm of sexuality for women–one that ironically circles back around to feed into rape culture–but that they are also affirming mainstream masculinity’s compulsory sexuality tenet that plays a part in men’s misogynistic treatment of women. The kind of compulsory sexuality that feminists recognize as overtly anti-woman is the kind that demands women be sexually available to all men, at all times, for the sake of pleasing the men. The kind of compulsory sexuality sprouting from sex-positive feminism is actually more along the lines of masculinity’s compulsory sexuality: creating shame around not having sex, rather than having sex.