JACLYN FRIEDMAN, the writer and activist who spoke at the recent Boston SlutWalk, is author of this inspiring 2010 piece, “My Sluthood, Myself,”in which she defends promiscuity as heroic and cathartic. Caution: this piece is raunchy. She describes sleeping with a man she contacted on the Internet the same night that she met him and a long history of casual sex. She also speaks of “dating” a woman and praises women who support each other in their exploits. She writes:

A slut needs a posse who finds her exploits almost as delicious as she finds them herself, who cares about her safety and her stories and her happiness but not one whit about her virtue. A slut alone is a slut in difficulty, possibly in danger..

This explains her support for sluts marching en masse. Here is an interview with Friedman, apparently in her mid-thirties and unmarried, about the Boston event.

Miss Friedman has successfully defined the modern slut: part prostitute who doesn’t take cash and part self-aggrandizing exploiter of others. In the feminist mind, it’s okay for a woman to treat other people as instruments of her passing desires.

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