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Summary Of Chapter 4 Of Sexual Citizens

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Chapter 4 of Sexual Citizens presents a concerning idea of how sex among teens and young adults is described as "rapey". This suggests that there are instances of non-consensual sex happening that may not be recognized as assault. This paper explores the relationship between sex and rape, as well as the societal implications of sex. The paper also identifies the social implications of sex and how it has become a toxic culture of over exaggeration and comparison, leading to a disturbing fetishization of knowledge of the sex lives of others. While there is no easy solution to this problem, individuals can take steps to cultivate a better sex culture by making sex more personal without third parties. A concerning idea brought up in chapter 4 of Sexual Citizens is sex, amongst teens and young adults, being described as …show more content…

In teens, knowing the sex life of peers around you is exciting. The problem lies in how we overexaggerate the sex lives of others. A friend could say they have had sex with a different girl every few weeks yet our minds may associate the person as a “man whore” and start to ask ourselves why the person gets so much attention as compared to oneself. It is the over exaggeration and comparison that makes a friendly discussion of sex so toxic. Hirsch explains the discussion of sex among youth adults exclaiming, “Most students have an exaggerated sense of how much sex others are having… There’s a competitive quality among some peer groups about each member’s sexual standing, where groups seek to advance their own status, but also compete with one another about who is, by some collectively agreed-upon metric, winning” (Hirsch). Sex is not a competition but when it comes to other people in for example, a circle of friends, it is whoever has the best sex or who has had sex with the most people or a combination of both. It is disturbing how society has fetishized knowing the sex lives of

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