'Losing' or 'giving' virginity?

Excellent and clear post on this topic by a blogger known as @fearlessknits on Twitter.

Well worth a read - here's a very brief quote from the article:

If virginity is something that is given rather than taken, then that subtly shifts sex from being something that one person does to another, to something that two people do together. All in a mode of speech. That, if widely used by teachers in sex ed classes, should only take 15 - 20 years or so to become the accepted and expected way to discuss this.

Taking down the "Sex is Cheap" sexism

A short article that pulls no punches in its criticism of the already-notorious Slate article that explains why men don't have to fear losing power to women in the bedroom, at least, because modern women "give it up" too easily and so have no power.

• Why That Slate Article Pissed You Off (And Why You Should Be Livid), by Violet Blue

(Flashback to every horror film I see these days in which any woman who shows sexual initiative is punished for it by being eaten by the monster seconds later.)