Noia column patronizes women

I am horrified by Justin Noia's column, "Sex rules," although, I suppose, I shouldn't be after reading last week's column on reproductive rights. Although Noia is entirely entitled to his opinion on sexual practice, I find the undertones of his column deeply misogynistic.

I am a Duke woman who is perfectly capable of making her own decisions about having healthy, safe, mutually desired sex, or not. I do not need to be "protected" from the lusts of men, and I resent the implication that if I am not a virgin at marriage, I am "used goods" that no man would want. Noia tells women to "demand more of [men]." I will. I demand that you treat us as full people who have the same capability to make informed and healthy decisions based on caring and mutual desire, not as fragile dolls who must be protected to preserve our "virtue."

Caroline Griswold

Trinity '10