Words have lost power due to the constant overexposure of the information age. I've joked with my wife for years that my goal is to make 'cunt' an acceptable word for PBS.
That being said the real gist of the article is nothing to do with the use of the word 'slut' but the act of BEING a slut. The concept that womens sexuality is somehow unfairly repressed. Perhaps for some people it is, but I know a lot of repressed guys as well. The idea that we are all slaves to media and society in terms of what we do (and who we do it with) and we need to be liberated from its authoritarian bonds is in many ways juvenile.
Her example of how this effects young people more than older is true but its the difference between being an adult and a child. If you social circle is so small that fucking everyone makes you a slut, perhaps you shouldn't be fucking everyone if you can't handle the effect it has on your reputation.
As an adult when you are sure of yourself and what you want, what ever age you reach this (some never do), you would care far less about being thought of as a slut by people who have no real baring in your life.
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