People Are Calling Out The Seriously Harmful Implications Of A Viral Tweet That Claims Sabrina Carpenter's Eiffel Tower Sex Position Is 'Inherently Degrading' Towards Women

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21-03-2025

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.
While these started innocently enough, they eventually became more and more x-rated as Sabrina incorporated the city or state where she was performing in the ' vulgar ' lyrics. If you need an example, she once sang in Singapore: 'Told that boy to sit me down on all fours / I told that boy go faster, now I'm all sore / You hit a little different here, Singapore.'
In fact, the lyrics she penned for her BBC Live Lounge performance in 2023 ended up being so NSFW that the BBC ended up editing them out of the final recording.
Acknowledging her raunchy sense of humor, Sabrina previously told Cosmopolitan: 'I think people think I'm just obnoxiously horny, when in reality, writing them comes from the ability to not be fearful of your sexuality as opposed to just not being to put it down.'
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.
If you missed it, Sabrina performed her 2024 song 'Bed Chem' at the show, which includes lyrics like: 'I bet we'd have really good bed chem / How you pick me up, pull 'em down, turn me 'round, oh, it just makes sense / How you talk so sweet when you're doing bad things, that's bed chem.'
As well as the now-famous line: 'Come right on me, I mean camaraderie.'
At the BRITS, Sabrina mimicked the staging and costume used for this song during her concerts, performing in sexy lingerie while writhing around on a bed. When the song came to an end, Sabrina was seen seductively going down on her knees in front of a man dressed as a British soldier.
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.
Sabrina giggled as she jovially took her place between the men, but not everybody on social media was laughing.
In fact, the whole thing has sparked a conversation about the way we view a woman's relationship to sex after one viral tweet claimed that the Eiffel Tower position is ' inherently degrading ' towards women.
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.'
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'a sex position you consensually partake in & enjoy isn't degrading just bc men are there,' somebody else agreed. 'having two people care about your pleasure *is* intimate even if you add a silly goofy title like 'eiffel tower'. and you don't need two cis men for this position!! this discourse is wild.'
'not to be the Friend Who's Too Woke but i feel like the hate against sabrina carpenter doing campy sex stuff in her music and live shows is largely because a lot of people don't think women should find sex fun,' another viral tweet adds.
'seeing a lot of 'eiffel tower bad because two men using one woman' but what if i'm the one using them. have u ever stopped to consider that,' somebody else quipped.
While others were just eager to point out that the main reason that Sabrina chose this particular position was clearly because of its link to Paris, and the whole thing isn't much deeper than that. One wrote: 'god forbid a woman make an eiffel tower joke in paris.'
And somebody else tweeted: 'all these think pieces about how she's doing this for the male gaze or how she's taking ownership of her sexuality when in reality she was simply doing a pose called the eiffel tower cause she's in paris. like it's actually not deep at all it was just the obvious joke to make.'
Meanwhile, another user concluded: 'Sabrina Carpenter getting fake Eiffel Tower'd at her Paris show is just good physical comedy. It's plain old, good vaudeville/burlesque-y stage direction. It's kinda her thing and it's been so fun to watch! I'd be sad if she stopped doing it.'