Jessica Valenti
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/ 10 December 2007

Women only!

Growing up in New York City, I took the subway to school like most of my peers. I remember not quite understanding, as a 13-year-old, the looks I received from men my father’s age — or why they kept ”accidentally” brushing up against me. What was all that about?

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/ 7 August 2006

Chastity is chic!

In a culture where one-night stands, reality porn and Playboy logos on kids’ stationery have all become shrug worthily normal, it takes quite a leap of imagination to be sexually subversive. Take up pole dancing? No, that’s so commonplace that women organise group lessons for hen parties. Threesomes? No longer noteworthy. Faux-lesbianism? Yawn