Get over yourself! There is nothing progressive or "free-thinking" about dancing on the table (which you've mentioned more than once--you clearly like to say this), or about your "freedom of [sexual] expression."
The progressive students on campus--many of them, but not all Christians--are working on rural health care, farmworkers rights, and sweatshop labor; they are mentoring the poor and disadvantaged; they are developing environmental initiatives. They are doing decidedly un-sexy and progressive work on behalf of others.
Your "girls-just-wanna-have-fun" stuff and your apparent inability to reflect seriously upon any criticism of this stance--from a Christian or any other point of view---speaks only to your shallow understanding of what it means to be progressive.
By all means, take pleasure in your body--and your bawdiness---but don't call this any kind of politics, especially not progressive.
Erica Jong took care of this "free-to-be-sexy-me" stuff some four decades ago. It's time you put your energies into something that truly matters.
Melissa Malouf
Associate Professor of the Practice
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