It was 1973 when Erica Jong’s Fear of Flying introduced readers to the concept of “the zipless fuck,” a sexual encounter unencumbered by shame, stigma, or conventional social mores.
“The zipless fuck is absolutely pure,” she wrote. “It is free of ulterior motives. There is no power game. The man is not ’taking’ and the woman is not ’giving.’ No one is attempting to cuckold a husband or humiliate a wife. No one is trying to prove anything or get anything out of anyone. The zipless fuck is the purest thing there is.”
Just over 50 years later, albeit less articulately, another young woman expressed similar sentiments—in a series of disjointed, typo-laden text messages, following a now-infamous incident of drunken, drug-fueled group sex at a Cornell University fraternity house.
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