biological parents then they must engage in penile-vaginal intercourse to reproduce a child oftheir own, then in such a case the definition of sex as penile-vaginal intercourse presented byChristine stands exemplified since in the act would require sexual intercourse through vaginalpenetration. According to Christina’s story with David in one instance, she claims she did nothave sex because, in that particular scenario, since there was no penile-vaginal intercourse. Sheargues that “for a long time I didn’t count it as one of the times I’d had sex. He never got inside,so it didn’t count” (Christina na). Essentially, this implies that to her at that moment sex involvedpenile-vaginal intercourse and nothing else.Nonetheless, Christina’s definition of sex as penile-vaginal intercourse presents problemsin establishing what counts as sex and what does not count. Her definition appears to be narrowand omits several scenarios which may intuitively count as sex and only considered the traditionor binary system involving vaginal penetration by the male organ. For example, women canengage in sex with one other so do men in the case of gays through homosexual practices.Ideally, good examples of how sex may occur among women may include licking and touching,grinding, fingering, as well as fisting using devices like vibrators or dildoes or any other sexobjects. Besides, there are many cases of anal sex or oral sex which do not involve penile-vaginalintercourse since because either the penis or the vagina may not be included in the act. Moreover,penal-anal sex involving male-male and male-female do occur. In such scenarios, Christina’s
