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In reply to the discussion: Why the "My bad sex wasn't rape" editorial is so utterly, utterly vile. [View all]McCamy Taylor
(19,240 posts)had sex that they did not really want to have with someone they were not really attracted to, because it felt like the appropriate or socially acceptable thing to do? In retrospect, are you angry? With the other person? With yourself? With society? Did you feel proud of yourself for putting another notch on your belt? Did you feel ashamed? Please include your gender if you reply.
I am female, and my dating period was very brief, since I met and married my husband while in college. While I slept with several men who wanted the sex more than I did, I have never thought of the experience as rape. It was more like "experience" in the Jimi Hendrix use of the word as in "are you experienced"? Did HIV change things? I was married and monogamous by the time HIV hit the scene, so STD was never something we had to worry about. We had birth control pills, so pregnancy was not a problem, either.