CNN Runs Article Titled, ‘What If Women Went On A Sex Strike Before The Midterms?’

I….don’t even know what to do with this. I don’t even know how to PROCESS this. It’s just so ridiculous.

CNN recently decided to run an opinion piece titled, “What if women went on a sex strike before the midterms?” I kid you not.

"Given the tight interweaving of economic and political power with sexual entitlement, female sexual autonomy has never been more urgent, and women's sexual pleasure has never been more political," writes @WednesdayMartin https://t.co/hyjOMjyqUQ

— CNN Opinion (@CNNOpinion) November 2, 2018

It was written by a woman named Wednesday Martin. She’s a “writer and cultural critic” who wrote a bunch of books on things sex related. She’s the type of person who attends annual sex researchers’ conferences, which I didn’t even know were A Thing until 5 minutes ago.

She uses the first chunk of her article to talk about “service sex,” which is a term used to describe disinterested women who sleep with their husbands just to keep them happy. Somehow, she managed to pivot to…voting.

It’s time for a revolution. At the polls, and in the bedroom. And in our understanding of who women are, sexually and otherwise. Given the tight interweaving of economic and political power with sexual entitlement, female sexual autonomy has never been more urgent, and women’s sexual pleasure has never been more political. Let’s consider what it might mean to go on a sex strike of sorts — to get what we want, rather than give what we think we owe others.

Excuse me, but huh?

A women’s sex strike against service sex, a refusal to do it out of a sense of obligation, would force us to confront these basic inequalities. Our current administration has amped up the notion that women are mere extensions of male will and pleasure, there to serve at every turn. What is the rollback of reproductive rights but an assertion that not only female reproduction but female sexuality itself belong to what science writer Natalie Angier calls the “Greater Male Coalition”? What are the President’s insults to Stormy Daniels other than assertions that the woman who enjoys sex or profits from it in any way — emotionally, financially, or physically — is unnatural, immoral, and unattractive? In this world order, female sexual autonomy is not only dangerous and destabilizing; it is increasingly hard to imagine. And female pleasure is irrelevant, even pathological, if it exists at all.