Veronica Monet’s keynote speech at the Sex 2.0 conference presents an overview of the ever-persistent split within the women’s rights movement regarding sexuality. Many people are familiar with the overall division between sex-positive viewpoints and those that focus on advocating purity and legislating morality, but most individuals outside the “sex ghetto” don’t know that feminists themselves have rarely agreed on matters of sexuality. Add issues of gender, race, culture, and socioeconomic status to the mix and it becomes clear that differences of opinion and priorities within feminism can become heated, very heated indeed. In the digital age, the seemingly endless plethora of possibilities and problems can hardly even be imagined. In regards to the new culture of individuals posting personal information about themselves online, Monet says “We are like the children that Mom and Dad can’t supervise. When we are on the Internet, they don’t get to supervise us and we get to talk about the real deal.”
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