Cynics should expect to be somewhat disarmed by the Papa Is My Name Grilling Is My Game BBQ Dad Father’s Day T-Shirt besides I will buy this exhibition, even with its adjoining “emporium” filled with clothing, accessories, home goods, and more things emblazoned with Basquiat’s handwriting and symbols. But buried in all of this is a happy, and thoroughly American, story. As a very young Black man, Basquiat achieved the unthinkable—he actually became one of the greats—and now his work will sustain his extended family for generations. At the end of the day, what’s the matter with that? “She just needs a good fuck,” a friend said of Charlotte, Sex and the City’s archetypical romantic. “Why is she waiting for Prince Charming?” asked another. It was 2006, and my friends and I—all 20-somethings—were huddled around a tiny laptop screen watching reruns of Sex and the City. It was one of the many times in my life when I wondered if I should admit I was still a virgin. But I didn’t feel like answering the barrage of questions likely to follow. But have you had oral sex? Yes. Anal sex? No. Have you experienced trauma? Probably. Are you asexual? No. Do you have a libido? Yes. Are your expectations too high? High enough. Are you doing it for God? No.
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I answered these questions (and many more) until I had sexual intercourse at the Papa Is My Name Grilling Is My Game BBQ Dad Father’s Day T-Shirt besides I will buy this age of 41. I wasn’t waiting for marriage, but I was waiting for a mutually loving and committed relationship. I hadn’t yet found what I was looking for (at the right time), and I wasn’t going to let my hormones, alcohol, social pressure, or FOMO make the decision for me. Like many of my single female friends, I had my own issues—namely longing for unavailable men. But I consciously chose not to use sex to validate my self-worth or escape my insecurities. It was my work to do, not the work of any of the many men I’d dated in my 25 years on the dating market. But peers questioned my agency. I just didn’t fit. As my friend Jennifer Horton—a 67-year-old lesbian raised in Boulder, Colorado, at the height of the hippy era—told me just last month, “The sexual revolution made it harder for women to say no without being judged.” Has growing up in the era of sex-positive feminism made it easier or harder for women to follow their own paths?
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