Don’t walk home alone. Don’t dress like a slut. Don’t trust anyone. Watch your drink at all times. Be careful at frat parties. Don’t be a tease, because then you’ll lead him on and then you’ll deserve it. Don’t get too drunk, because then it might just be drunk sex—not rape.
These are the conflicting ideas that girls are taught about their sexuality. Be sexy, not sexual- a sexual object, not an agent. These ideas are perpetuated in sex education in schools and through the penetrable nature of women’s bodies.
After attending Take Back the Night, I was asked by someone “Was it an event for girls who were really raped, or just girls who were drunk?”
THINKING SEX 