August 20, 2013

• Pegging

  Friend: "Do you know what pegging is?"

  Me: "No."

  Friend: "It's when a woman wears a strap-on and penetrates a guy from behind."

  Me, instinctively: "Ew! Why would anyone do that?!"

  Friend: "The fact that it's not the norm doesn't make it wrong you know?"

  I paused and processed what my friend said. He was right.

  Initially, I had a what-the-eff type reaction. 

  My reaction was a result of an innate bias influenced by what I deemed as the 'norm'.

  Sometimes when things are the norm, you don't spend time questioning if the norm is right or wrong, or if there is a right or wrong.

  In this context, as long as the intercourse is consensual between two adults, who am I to pass judgment?

  I've always been very pro-LGBT rights. Not that pegging is a LGBT community specific thing.

  But... having friends who are plugged in that scene reminds me to keep an open mind to perspectives that are different from mine.

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