Mia Freedman

It's true.

What's interesting when we've been looking at the rise of fingering, and I've been thinking about it a little bit.

Yeah, come on.

Cultural critics.

Fingering's back.

And I think there's a couple of reasons for that.

The first is that no one has to be nude.

Both parties can be fully clothed, which is good for some of the parties involved might not want to be nude.

Also, it's more safe for mainstream viewing.

And then the other thing, of course, which is wonderful is this focus on female pleasure.

Like during penetrative sex all the time.

Big experimenting.

Lots of rubbing up against people.

I think it's really hot because often when you graduate to P&V sex and oral sex,

you leave that behind.

And it's actually a great thing to maybe reintroduce back into the men's room.

I think what's most formative about the way Gen X women were introduced to sex is AIDS.

We became sexually active in the era of sex could kill you, like could actually kill you.

So not only did we have to worry about STDs and pregnancy, which women have always had to worry about, we also had to worry about AIDS, which was seen at that time as a death sentence.

And so I know that that was hugely formative in my fears around sex and in unprotected sex.