♦ So, my university held an Ann Summers party in the Students’ Union. And, being what is essentially a pitifully low and small-time version of a sex writer, I felt it was my duty to go along. I’m a sexually-liberated girl, you should know that by now, but I admit to feeling a bit nervous about the whole affair. Not because it was Ann Summers, not because I’m a hideous prude or anything, but because it might be embarrassingly extroverted and full of having to be social and ‘wacky’.

But I went. I left after 30 minutes (many of which were spent hiding in the toilet, which was great as the ladies’ was being used for the girls modelling the Ann Summers lingerie to get changed in. I was almost tempted to stay ;). Now, admittedly I left because there was no way on Earth I was going to play ‘Orgasm Bingo’ but in the short time that I was there I found so very many woefully idiotic and offensive things to get angry about. And not only angry, but ashamed and disgusted.

Women. I came back from it ashamed and disgusted by women. Want to hear why?

Here are my problems with the AS party:

♦ The event was open only to women. As if men have nothing whatsoever to gain from Ann Summers, sex toys and so on, and sex overall. At least one man I know was disappointed by this. Now, it was said to me by another friend that actually this is because “there’s a bizarre clause in British law that something like an Ann Summers party constitutes an orgy if men are invited”. Whilst this seems odd I know Britain has some odd laws and I can’t say whether this is true or not, but okay, fine, if that’s the law so be it. But can you imagine the demented honking that would’ve arisen from feminists and the like if there had been any sort of ‘Men Only’ event in the Union? All too often there is this double standard.

♦ In their welcome introduction type thing the hosts said that they wanted to “sexually liberate people” and then less than 30 seconds later made it clear that by ‘people’ what they meant was ‘women’. Because obviously women are so much more sexually repressed than men. How stupid is that! Firstly it seems to me that *everyone* needs to be more sexually liberated. As I said when I created this blog. Even, shock horror, men. Secondly it’s part of that whole feminist “we’re so oppressed!” thing. We’re not fucking oppressed (at least, in a country like the UK, or indeed America).

♦ They then went on to actually make the comment that masturbation is much better than a man and that you’d probably be better off with a vibrator than a bloke! Surely I don’t even need to point out what’s wrong with that! Firstly, men are not just for sex. Having a boyfriend, a partner, a lover, whatever, is not just about sex. What about love? Support? Sharing your life with someone? Apparently not high on these girls’ agendas, that or they’re bitter and defensive, they clearly haven’t met the right man, but that’s no reason to bitch and moan. Secondly, there is no way on earth that a bit of silicone and a motor is better than a wonderful, warm, soft-skinned tactile human being. Just no.

♦ And then in a brilliant show of female muddle-mindedness, after saying that you don’t need a man at all because they’re crap, they then had these stupidly skinny bints modelling sexy underwear and the like. Which, of course, is designed to seduce men (or ladies, of course, if that’s your thing but I doubt these stupid harpies would’ve thought about that either). So, why have a man? They suck! You can do it yourself much better! Oh and by the way here’s some knickers so you can pull blokes. Talk about hypocrisy.

To be continued in the next part containing:

Discussions about the AS party between me,  and some feminists. It gets all debatey :)

Oh, and some more bitching about why feminists should shut up. Like domestic violence and divorce ♦