This becomes clear when the commander takes Ofwarren to the officers' club where she meets her friend from before, Mira. Mira deludes herself into thinking she had sex with the commander when she says “what shit are you with? I've had it, it's crap" (Atwood, 221). By making sex for fun a complete taboo for women but one that men, or high-status men, can bypass, it is evident that sexual reproduction and the politics around it are used to keep women in their place. This double standard happens too often in today's society where women are told that their virginity is sacred and men are expected to live through marriage as in today's world, they only pretend to apply to men when their true purpose is to make society see the true purpose of women as