Once again, Sabrina Carpenter is back at the center of Sex Discourse, and the whole thing is honestly getting a little bit exhausting. If you have the pleasure of not knowing what I am talking about, the 25-year-old singer sparked fury from some corners of the internet on Monday when she debuted a brand new sex position during her performance of “Juno.”
But first, a little bit of context. In recent years, Sabrina has undeniably become renowned for the unashamed way that she publicly embraces her sexuality, with her NSFW sense of humor really coming to the forefront during her Emails I Can’t Send tour in 2022, when she started to ad-lib a brand new outro to her song “Nonsense” every night.
The star retired her “Nonsense” tradition when she kicked off her Short n’ Sweet tour last year, but that definitely doesn’t mean that she is shying away from her sexuality. If anything, she’s only become more unabashed, and her recent performance at the BRIT Awards in London earlier this month was so eye-popping that almost 1,000 viewers complained to the UK’s TV regulator, Ofcom.
But “Bed Chem” isn’t the only explicit part of Sabrina’s Short n’ Sweet era, with another one of her album tracks, “Juno,” asking: “Wanna try out my fuzzy pink handcuffs?”
“Wanna try out some freaky positions?” she later sings, and during her sexually charged live performances of this lyric, Sabrina teases a different sex position — and this is where the latest discourse has stemmed from. During her Paris show on Monday, Sabrina decided to make a cheeky reference to the city by enlisting two male dancers to demonstrate the so-called Eiffel Tower sex position, which involves one person on all fours in the middle of two others.
It all started when one Sabrina fan shared a screenshot of the moment to X and wrote: “maybe, just maybe, she doesn’t see sex as something degrading. maybe girls are allowed to see sex as something intimate or dare i say fun and expressive,” only for the other user to quote-tweet them and claim: “THAT position in particular is inherently degrading. The whole point of it is a woman being used for mens pleasure, there’s no way to look at this as a positive thing and it’s certainly not ‘intimate.’”
But many found this narrative damaging, with one person pointing out: “i am not going to argue about sabrina carpenter being feminist one way or another but i do think it’s circling back to harmful when we start saying certain sex positions are ‘inherently degrading’ for women.”
What do you make of the discourse surrounding Sabrina’s Paris position? Let me know in the comments below!
