It is fascinating when radical feminists go so far with their narrative that they come all the way back around to what are essentially conservative positions on human sexuality. It is hilarious that they do not even realize how comparable their views are to puritanical religious views on sex and the nature of women. In the case of the radfem narrative on PIV (Penis-in-Vagina) sex they have come back around to a position that has roots in the worst of all evils from their point of view: Patriarchy and the accompanying notion that women are the property first of their fathers and then of their husbands. To the extent that their argument deviates from this it assumes that traditionally male gender roles are inherently superior, that motherhood is oppressive, and that most women are so stupid they have been tricked into wanting male companionship, sex and children.

The conservative position on abstinence mostly takes form today in the push for “abstinence-only until marriage” sex education in government schools and the phenomenon of virginity pledges taken by religious teenagers both male and female. But the notion of chastity and the expectation of premarital abstinence has deep cultural and religious roots. In a bygone era it was expected that a woman would be a virgin on her wedding day when her father would give her away to her new husband. This tradition was the result of various religious notions of chastity and female virtue as well as practical concerns about property, child-rearing, inheritance, family bonds, political alliances and so forth.

Tied into this tradition was the societal assumption that females are valuable to society because they are female. Interestingly this assumption leads to what would seem to be some very pro-female and even proto-feminist notions. Female bodies tend to be physically weaker and require protection because they are the carriers of the next generation. Therefore violence against women is not only wrong, it is more wrong than violence against men. A man wants his wife to be a virgin when he marries her because female sexuality is valuable and precious, not cheap and tawdry. Thus a father seeks to protect his daughter from unsavory men and preserve her for a worthy suitor. Perhaps these ideas have been so marginalized since the death of God that radfems have forgotten they ever existed in the first place, and are thus not aware of the hilarious irony of their sexual puritanism. Mainstream liberalism has discarded these notions altogether.

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