So in honor of the play I saw on this very Red, Pink, and Heart-Shaped weekend (In which my two friends did an AWESOME job) I'm going to propose a Brilliant Idea: The Penis Monologues.
No Really, I'm dead serious.
It seems women love to talk about sex for a variety of reasons.
1) We were oppressed and denied any recognition of having sexual desires for years, and even once that passed we really couldn't talk about it as much as we probably should. Feminism, etc. etc. blah blah blah, by being able to talk about these things frankly we are making a political statement that is both empowering and encourages health and awareness surrounding vaginas.
2) Female bonding patterns. Maybe it's a stereotype, but it is apparently far more common for girls to use their friends more as a support network and group of confidantes than men do, at least at younger ages. Where dudes might shy away from the personal, chicks apparently dig talking about it ad nauseum. Where some girls get together and have sex toy and vibrator parties (I'm not kidding- My mother actually did this recently, and my college has hosted at least a dozen. ) some guys will probably just hide their porn in some secretive subfolder on their hard disk and try to bring as little attention to it as possible.
And this is exactly why we need the Penis Monologues. The truth is, men and their dicks probably have just as much pressure put on them by society as women do, they just don't talk about it as much. In fact, they're probably not even encouraged to talk about it nearly as much as women are just because they lack the two resources listed above.
And of course, the final reason clearly necessitating this play's existence, is that I personally think it would be really entertaining. I mean, I have a vagina, a play about it will be entertaining and heartwarming (though honestly it's not my favorite piece) but not terribly informative. Let's see how the other side lives a bit, OK?
PS- I may have mentioned this earlier, but I realize that every time I blog about sex (which is a lot) I tend to explain things in a very gendered and stereotypical way. PLEASE let me know (all 4 readers I have) if you feel that I am just entirely misinformed.
2 comments:
You are correct, in general. I used to talk more openly about such things than I do now and people get creeped out.
My school's doing a version of it soon, maybe I'll watch it and then try to come up with something to penis monologue about.
If you have a recommendation of how to watch it without watching my school's awkwardly amateurish attempt at it I'd be pretty grateful.
Wait, your school is doing a version of the Vagina Monologues or have they actually developed the Penis Monologues?
And my only suggestion is see it at my college, because let's face it, this entire school is a Monologue...
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