Women are ferally horny, according to TV and movies. Then why are they not having sex?
SalonIt is a truth once almost universally debated that women enjoy sex, even desire it. It may not seem like it in Hollywood, when women are so often the ones being chased and coerced into having it à la "American Pie" or murdered for having sex. Like a gender-inverted "Superbad," Sennott and Edebiri's characters start a high school fight club under the false pretense of going to juvie and believing in women's solidarity all in an effort to have sex with the school's hot cheerleaders. For Huck Magazine, Katie Tobin investigated "Why more young women are turning to celibacy," finding that more women are disillusioned about dating when the sexual playing field is rife with power imbalances. As more women rethink the typical scripts for sex, these movies offer a reminder: For so long sex has been defined by the straight, cis man — begin with penetration, then ejaculation, the end — but what would "mainstream" sex look like if men were not the default?