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概述：性爱本是寻常事，但放眼望去，敢于公开对此发表观点的却全是女性——除了不久前说出“合法强奸”的那位男性议员以外。显然，本文作者也是女性。
Hints：
Brad
Angelina
Camille Paglia
Katie Roiphe
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校对：sighsmile
翻译&注解：baizhixian
答疑：cherryxyr
口语点评：lsy34
口语节目地址：http://bulo.hujiang.com/menu/2120/item/661131/Sex - to state the obvious - is not a rational pursuit. For all of our cultural and scientific progress, close the bedroom door and what goes on inside is still largely animal. It transcends thinking. Sometimes it transgresses it.
That is what is so wonderful and so terrifying about it. It even manages to defy the market. You can make yourself the most attractive human being on the planet, but it won't guarantee sexual satisfaction.
Brad and Angelina don't necessarily do it any better than anyone else. The rule is that there are no rules. You can have good sex with somebody you don't love and - what a kick in the teeth for romance - when you do find the one, the earth may not move, or eventually the sex will become so ordinary that you run the risk of desire from outside ripping both of you apart.
So where does that leave us? Well for years now, it has been women who have made the cultural running when it comes to really talking about sex.
Feminism spawned a huge debate about all such things, from the uncompromising idea that all intercourse is close to rape because it is about subjugation, to those like Camille Paglia or Katie Roiphe who took modern women to task for not taking enough responsibility for their own behaviour. If we are to own our desire and be equal players in this dangerous game, we have to be careful how and when we choose to paint ourselves as victims.性爱——显而易见，不是一种理性的追求。对于我们所有的文化和科学进步而言，关上卧室的门，里面上演的很大程度上都是肉欲。它超越了思想，有时候它违反了人类的道德。
性爱既美好又可怕。它甚至能无视市场。你可以把自己打造成地球上最有吸引力的人，但这并不能保证性满意度。
布拉德(Brad)和安吉丽娜(Angelina)在这方面不一定做得比其他人都好。规则即没有规则。你可以和与你不爱的人交欢，这对浪漫的爱情而言无疑是承重的打击，当你的确发现真爱，地球可能不再旋转，或者性爱将变得平淡无奇，你冒险接受来自外界的诱惑，从而导致你们两人分开。
这意味着什么呢? 多年以来，当谈论到性爱的时候，一直是妇女在做文化变革。
女权主义催生出一个巨大的议题，从坚定的思想——即所有的性行为都等同于强奸，因为它与征服有关，到那些和卡米拉•帕格利亚(Camille Paglia)或者凯蒂•洛芙(Katie Roiphe)类似的人，他们对当代妇女持严厉批评态度，因为她们对自己的行为未付起足够的责任。如果我们拥有自己的欲望并能在这个危险的游戏中做一个公平的参与者，那么选择在怎样以及何时将自己描述成受害者的这一方面，我们要谨慎行事。