3 Lessons From Sydney Leathers' Sextual Musings
What We Can Learn From Sydney Leathers' Sextual Musings
Aug. 6, 2013— -- Millennial Emily Post, Sydney Leathers, was on XOJane this morning offering young women tips for how they could seduce their own politician. If you follow Leathers' suggestions on what to say and when to respond, you too can be on the fast track to Insider Edition exclusive interviews and porn contracts!
But whether you hate her tips or adore her sex blogging skills, there are some choice lessons in her fairly awful choices.
1. Respect yourself, even if you don't respect yourself
Self respect is not complicated, but it is easy to complicate it. For example, Leathers opens her XOJane piece with a declaration of sexual empowerment. (She is not a bad person, you guys!)
"I enjoy my sexuality, and it doesn't make me anything other than what I am: a young woman who's enjoying her life to the fullest and going on plenty of adventures with willing partners."
She understands her role in the world, embraces her position, gives a nice little diss to Maureen Dowd and says Weiner was like her own little lab rat.
But then she adds:
"Looking back, my secret was a strange one to keep. I didn't tell anyone what I was doing. My affair with Anthony was almost like my best friend. I started to alienate people."
So like, maybe she's an autonomous being embracing her sexuality. Or maybe she's someone hiding a secret life from her friends and losing contact because the dude she's messing around with is married. Either way, who are we to judge? The important thing is that she is literally positioning herself for the next Dr. Drew reality show. The downside is that there's nothing respectful about that.
2. Selfies Have Their Limits
Selfies are awesome, (not really) but there is a thing as too much awesome. The XOJane piece is littered with selfies. There are selfies of smiles, kissy faces, feet with high heels on.
On this, Leathers writes: "And don't be too proud for selfies ... Do things that aren't normal. Like I don't care if it's porno lashes or big heels in bed, just do it."
Translation: If you want a guy to like you based entirely on your social media profile, the selfie is the way to do it. The other plus? The selfie is the ultimate carnival mirror. Because let's face it, every selfie included in Leather's tips looks better than any one of the exclusive beach pics she posed for.
3. Seducing a Politician Is Like a Romantic Comedy, But Not
Seducing a politician is eerily just like a RomCom. This is not something you should emulate.
Here's the movie version: Do you call him back? No! You have to wait! Do you let him know you're interested? Not right away, stupid! It's all about games and never letting anyone know what you actually think.
Here's the Leathers version: "When Anthony would flirt with me at first I would pretend like I didn't know he was flirting. That just makes them 10 times more interested. It's a little trick."
The big difference: Nobody usually labels you a #$%* in a romantic comedy.
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