Obama opened the Arctic to drilling by Shell, with its dreadful safety record there, and even they demurred in a fit of blushing virginhood. Fracking is causing earthquakes in hitherto seismically quiet areas like Oklahoma.
Sometimes these voices emerge from an ostensible past, as in "My Grandmother's Virginhood, 1879" or "Motherhood, 1880." More often, they take place in an undefined domestic present.