WAP thoughts
Oct. 20th, 2023 01:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ur_gothmomWhen I was in college over twenty years ago I took an elective called Psychology of Human Sexuality (it was one of the best classes I've ever taken, and my final grade was 104% IIRC, not to brag). One class discussion that stuck with me was when the professor asked people to answer how to describe an aroused vagina and about six or seven different people were called on and couldn't answer. I was the person who put my hand up and finally said "wet." And the professor pointed out, correctly, how fucked up it was that everyone can instantly answer that an aroused penis is hard but nobody talks about aroused vaginas being wet.
I didn't think about this, but I should have, when "WAP" came out and half the internet lost its collective mind that Nicki Minaj and Megan Thee Stallion were talking about wet-ass pussies, yea gods, were even using [gasp] hyperbolic language to describe their arousal (when no dick has ever been as hard as a rock or a diamond yet using those age-old similes never makes anyone suggest calling a fucking doctor). But this is huge, even liberatory. Twenty years later, you will no longer have a class of college students sitting there unable to tell you that an aroused vagina is wet.
[This post brought to you by Prospero's wet-ass party in Netflix's The Fall of the House of Usher jogging my memory.]
I didn't think about this, but I should have, when "WAP" came out and half the internet lost its collective mind that Nicki Minaj and Megan Thee Stallion were talking about wet-ass pussies, yea gods, were even using [gasp] hyperbolic language to describe their arousal (when no dick has ever been as hard as a rock or a diamond yet using those age-old similes never makes anyone suggest calling a fucking doctor). But this is huge, even liberatory. Twenty years later, you will no longer have a class of college students sitting there unable to tell you that an aroused vagina is wet.
[This post brought to you by Prospero's wet-ass party in Netflix's The Fall of the House of Usher jogging my memory.]
