You're Laughing. Women Are Having Sex With Their Husbands and You're Laughing.

Endorsing mutually pleasurable sex within marriage is apparently a very controversial thing.

Every now and then, I see a take that’s so typical, so normal, so…almost boring, but then it generates controversy anyway. The latest one? Married couples should have great, mutually enjoyable sex, and sex is better within monogamy.

Perhaps the problem is that this take came from Evie Magazine, as they released their sex issue—intended to promote pleasurable sex with marriage, and provide an alternative to purity culture and abstinence-only. Evie Magazine is best described as a “conservative Cosmopolitan.” Given that regular Cosmopolitan barely exists anymore (at least not in its original, sex-first, “how to touch his member” form), Evie is one of the only current magazine sources of dating and sex advice for women, and literally the only one on the Right.

And yes, as I said before, Evie is conservative. Given that I am not a conservative, I do not agree with, or endorse, everything seen on Evie. So this is not your chance to say, “Ahemm….CHH, if you LOOOVE Evie so much, what do you have to say about [INSERT ARTICLE HERE]??” I’m sure they’ve written many things with which I disagree!

But lately, Evie is under intense scrutiny for publishing…and I want you to take a deep breath so the horror can fully marinate…

sex advice for married women. Oh, and worse, endorsement of pleasurable sex within marriage.

I know, I know. It’s terrifying. If this doesn’t fucking horrify you, you aren’t paying attention. The only question is: who do you think is mad about it? The answer: all of the above.