Walk of Shame or Stride of Pride?

I made a friend in Spain who, at the end of every night would have up to three different guys fighting over who got to walk her home. Not kiss her. Not fuck her. But to simply be the guy responsible for getting her home safe.

In the meantime, the other girls walked home alone after one-night stands, or from repetitive sex with their fallback of an amante (Spanish for lover, but the connotations are that of a fuck buddy).

And that’s the thing. Sluts don’t get walked home. (I use the term slut loosely; and wow that pun was not intended).

It’s as if they’re a super species of female somehow less privy to the cold and less prone to danger. Some men couldn’t care less how the woman they just fucked gets home, as long as they get out. Sometimes they’re asleep before she’s even started collecting her things.

Then again, maybe the sexually liberated don’t want to be escorted home – accepting it a luxury forgone of sex with no strings attached.

Is taking a girl back to her home courtesy, or a step backwards for feminism?

And what then, if they’re your boyfriend? Rain, hail or shine, a five-minute taxi or an hour trip late at night on public transport – are we big enough to look after ourselves?

Is there a difference between needing to be looked after and wanting to feel looked out for?

Love, Noeline

xox

Yes, this is real. Read the story here.

Walk of Shame Kits, anyone?

Before Social Media

I wonder how the babies of today would react when they're grown up and realise that their entire infancy has been documented and uploaded to the Internet.

Would they feel thankful for the head start given them on their social media footprint in life?

Or, after all that posing, would they consider it normal and not even question it? 

Would they, at school, struggle to comprehend why their own peers don't already have a few hundred photos posted of themselves?

Or would they feel embarrassed, self-conscious and demand that they be deleted?

All this, before they're even eligible for their own social media accounts.