The Buckle of the Bible Belt is hardly the place one would expect to find a 17-year-old, self-assured pro-sex feminist girl. The South is stereotyped as a place of deep religious and sexual repression, which in turn leads to all sorts of hot, illicit, and dangerous sex. When people find out I am from there—which generally occurs the second I open my mouth—in addition to expecting me to be inbred, they expect stories of hot summer nights with male family members or traveling salesmen. However, I did not, however, grow up in a Flannery O’Connor story, nor am I Blanche [...]