"In fact, how are we, through a 2016 lens, actually moving away from rape culture if we refuse to entertain the possibility that a woman may actually have wanted sex – particularly in a time when women’s bodies were even less their own than now?"

I'm glad to see that the idea of a "rape culture" may finally be coming to a close. It is sex that most men want, not to rape for it, and that original song represents how that could come about - if one wants to see the woman as really wanting sex. I tend to think, however, that there were good reasons why she wouldn't - and still are, in today's world. 

When we say that women didn't connect with their own bodies in that era, but were repressed, I wonder now how true that thought is. Today, women are pressured to be non-repressed, when the reality is that sometimes, and for some women, they really might not want to. Yet women are encouraged to be 'adult' by becoming sexualized - by having sex. How great is that? Ask, who benefits, and how.

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