Why do you have to put it on women to make "good" decisions? They don't have to keep themselves pure, they can do what they want, just like men. You say he just wants to get his dick wet? Sometimes a "strong independent woman" just wants to get her pussy stuffed and she knows the fuc boi is easy.
Maybe what is was meant to invoke wasn't a strong reaction, but a realization that this is different society where women don't have to conform to the same sexuality repressing gender norms, and going forward we shouldn't assume the characters have the same puritanical hangups we're used to