Eden's Casual Sex Is A Con: Women Just Aren T Like Men

In this day of age, many people take "love" for granted, and let alone, take sex for granted. Sex is an emotionally attaching bond in which women are provided a fulfillment in which they feel loved. This is the value that Dawn Eden vividly expresses and argues in "Casual Sex is a Con: Women Just Aren't like Men." Eden feels that unfulfilled need and emptiness as a result of casual sex and untrue love. Her basis for argument is not so much that women can't "shag" like men, but that women should not try to due to its harmful, emotional consequences. Eden strives to convince women, through her own trials and tribulations, that sex is worth the wait and not worth the pain In Eden's opening paragraph, she begins with a comparison to catch her
When I first read the essay, I, as a male, began to question some of my motives. Eden provides such in depth emotions and feelings that occur to women during sex, that it makes men second guess themselves. She essentially is trying to help her argument by hoping that men will realize that sex is emotionally damaging and shouldn't be carried about so lightly. She indirectly tells men how they are not helping the cause, and she almost conveys that men are to blame when she notes that the men just pack up, leave, and head for the next girl in line. And it is this indirect message that makes her essay unique. The approach is odd, because she risks losing her male audience. But in essence, that doesn't matter since she is mainly addressing women to not fall into the casual sex trap. However, for those males that continue following what Eden is saying, they gain a woman's view that would never just come out and is now laid out for them to understand. And by having men understand her, Eden makes her goal more attainable. By putting sex in perspective, she adequately forces men to think about their actions and how they treat