Motherhood Quote by Victoria Billings

“Sexual liberation” gets skewered here as marketing copy: a bright, emancipatory label that quietly swaps one mandate for another. Billings’ intent is less to condemn pleasure than to interrogate the way liberation talk can harden into a new moral hierarchy. The line “another kind of bondage” is doing double duty. It accuses the culture of selling freedom while still policing women’s choices, and it hints at a system that measures women by performance - not chastity this time, but sexual proficiency and appetite.

The subtext is a critique of a post-1960s script in which the “modern” woman proves her autonomy through orgasm, confidence, and conspicuous sexual self-actualization. Billings frames orgasm not as a private good but as a public credential: the ultimate proof you’ve evolved past the “old” feminine ideal. That’s why the jab at “it’s better than motherhood” lands with heat. She’s not praising motherhood as destiny; she’s flagging how cultural narratives love to crown a single apex of fulfillment, then shame anyone who doesn’t climb there.

Context matters: second-wave feminism, the sexual revolution, and later media-driven “sex-positive” rhetoric all wrestled over who benefits when sex becomes both commodity and ideology. Billings is writing from inside that argument, warning that a liberation slogan can become a scoreboard - and that women, once again, are the ones expected to win it.