Letters to the Editor
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The topic isn't the problem--the lack of complication is.
The problem isn't the topic--sex can be very interesting. The problem is the lack of complication in the exploration of the topic. Basically the whole essay she is looking for a one-night stand, then at the end, she realizes--surprise, surprise--that she doesn't really need a one-night stand after all. If she had approached the same topic in a less chick-lit way, I think she could have come up with something interesting--there's obviously something complex going on between her desire to be slutty and her fear of being slutty (because, let's face it, without that fear, she would have had her one-night stand the first semester of freshman year). This could be an interesting look at the modern version of the Madonna/Whore complex--but instead it's just light and glib and shellacked in something like Lip Smackers Petal Pink Lip Gloss.
For those of you who suggest you can't criticize unless you can write something better yourself: do I have to be a musician to critique Brittany's latest single? Do I have to be a director to say that "The Patriot" isn't such a great movie? Do I have to be a cook to send my steak back in a restaurant? People have the capacity to judge even what they cannot themselves do.