Reply #36: "...setting the price of the vagina."

[Iggo]

Wow. Yikes. Gross.

True, too. And well said.

Some disclosure, here. I spoke to my 13 yr old niece about not "giving it up." And how she has the power because she has something they want, but if she "gives it away" she loses the power. This was a small part of a larger talk on how I hoped she wouldn't start having babies 'til after she finished college. I didn't do it for morality or purity, but for practicality. Now I see I may have been "setting the price of the vagina" with the "don't give it away" message.

Dammit. This is the kind of problem-fixing that starts with, "Um, Melissa? The other day I said something stupid..."