We’re raised in a culture that both celebrates and pathologizes male “dirtiness.” On the one hand, boys were and are given license to be louder, rowdier, and more sexual. We’re expected to get our hands dirty, to rip our pants, and get covered in stains. We enjoy a freedom to be dirty that goes hand in hand with the expectation that we are in a state of perpetual craving for women’s bodies. Even now, too many girls grow up shamed for wanting to be dirty. And if men’s bodies are dirty, then to lust after them is to be dirty as well.