In the documentary Cunnamulla , two barely teens discuss how they negotiate sex with the local boys. The description is not of pleasure, lust or even connection but a casual congress because there seems to be no other option. Presumably the boys were satisfying a masculine urge or displaying bravado by doing it with these children. Maybe, but the question remains whether this type of behaviour is really worth reproducing in our present social systems. Far be it for me to return to times when good women were innocent little beings, preserving themselves for marriage.
Women are sexual beings and most enjoy good sexual relationships and even the odd one-night stand.
But surely few enjoy the quickie at the office or the pass in the offices of Parliament. I find it hard to imagine that there are many women who want sex with strangers in dark places, or hurried contact with strange men's sexual parts without warning or specific consent. What concerns me is that the debate is not about why Tripodi tried sex with a near stranger, just because she was in his office at night. And another party goer defended him by saying she was. And then maybe women will not be legitimately reluctant to complain.