Voluntarily celibate: why I gave up sex in 2018Sex and the City Just because you can be a 'Samantha' doesn't mean you should be. I told my friends that I was voluntarily celibate ("volcel" in portmanteau-loving internet circles) in the hope it would become a thing – and so I might make them laugh. I thought hetero sex was an equal playing field and I could objectify men just as well as they objectified me. Chris Carr The sexual liberation handed down from the Sex and the City third wave doesn't have to be the norm. I realised that sexual liberation handed down from the Sex and the City third wave didn't have to be the norm.

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